{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0093.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg002.local001","title":"Περὶ φυτῶν αἰτιῶν","titleGreek":"Περὶ φυτῶν αἰτιῶν","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Theophrastus","authorityName":"THEOPHRASTUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0093-theophrastus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0093-theophrastus/","editors":["Friedrich Wimmer"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Theophrasti Eresii opera quae supersunt omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1854","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Proofreading and CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/theophrastieres05wimmgoog/page/n8/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Theophrastus. Περὶ φυτῶν αἰτιῶν. ed. Friedrich Wimmer. Theophrasti Eresii opera quae supersunt omnia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1854. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"Τῶν φυτῶν αἱ γενέσεις ὅτι μέν εἰσι πλείους καὶ πόσαι καὶ τίνες ἐν ταῖς ἱστορίαις εἴρηται πρότερον. ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐ πᾶσαι πᾶσιν οἰκείως ἔχει διελεῖν τίνες ἑκάστοις καὶ διὰ ποίας αἰτίας ἀρχαῖς χρωμένους ταῖς κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας οὐσίας· εὐθὺ γὰρ χρὴ συμφωνεῖσθαι τοὺς λόγους τοῖς εὑρημένοις. ἡ μὲν οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος γένεσις κοινὴ πάντων ἐστὶ τῶν ἐχόντων σπέρμα· πάντα γὰρ δύναται γεννᾶν. τοῦτο δὲ καὶ τῇ αἰσθήσει φανερὸν ὅτι συμβαίνει, κατὰ δὲ τὸν λόγον ἴσως ἀναγκαῖον· ἡ γὰρ φύσις οὐδὲν ποιεῖ μάτην, ἥκιστα δὲ ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις καὶ κυριωτάτοις· πρῶτον δὲ καὶ κυριώτατον τὸ σπέρμα, ὥστε τὸ σπέρμα μάτην ἂν εἴη μὴ δυνάμενον γεννᾶν, εἴπερ τούτου χάριν αἰεὶ τὸ σπέρμα καὶ πρὸς τοῦτο πέφυκεν. ὅπερ ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων πάντων λαμβάνειν ἐστὶν ὁμολογούμενον. ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ μὴ χρῆσθαι τοὺς γεωργοὺς ἐπ᾽ ἐνίων, ὅτι θᾶττον ἀπ᾽ αὐτομάτων παραγίνεται καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ εἶναι ῥᾳδίως ἐπί τινων λαμβάνειν μήτε τῶν δένδρων μήτε τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/#tlg0093-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/#tlg0093-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/#tlg0093-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/#tlg0093-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/#tlg0093-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/#tlg0093-tlg002-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0093.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}