{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0530.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0530.tlg002.local001","title":"An animal sit quod est in utero","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"Pseudo-GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0530-pseudo-galenus/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"An animal sit quod est in utero, ed. H. Wagner, Galeni qui fertur libellus Εἰ ζῷον τὸ κατὰ γαστρός [Diss. Marburg. 1914]: 1–18. Cod: 3,721: Med.","citationShort":"An animal sit quod est in utero, ed. H. Wagner, Galeni qui fertur libellus Εἰ ζῷον τὸ κατὰ γαστρός [Diss. Marburg. 1914]: 1–18."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"An animal sit quod est in utero. An animal sit quod est in utero, ed. H. Wagner, Galeni qui fertur libellus Εἰ ζῷον τὸ κατὰ γαστρός [Diss. Marburg. 1914]: 1–18.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0530.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"[μὴ] ὄντος οὔτε τὸν τοῦ γενησομένου δέχεται λόγον. ὀρθῶς τοίνυν κατὰ τὸν Ἱπποκράτην ζῷον ἂν τὸ κατὰ γαστρὸς λέγοιτο, 〈ὄντος〉 καὶ τοῦ σπείραντος αὐτὸ ἐξ ὅλων καὶ τὴν ὅλου παρέχον- τος δύναμιν. Οὐ μόνον δὲ ὅτι ἀπὸ παντὸς καὶ ὅτι ζῷον ἐδήλωσεν, ἀλλ' ἔδειξεν ἐπὶ ποσότητι ὅτι τὰς τοῦ παντὸς ἀρχὰς ἔχον καὶ δύναται τὰ ὅμοια τῷ ἀφ' οὗ τὴν ῥίζαν ἔσχε, λέγων ‘δίδυμα γίνεται μὲν ἀφ' ἑνὸς λαγνεύματος, ἔχουσι δὲ κόλπους 〈συχνοὺς〉 καὶ γαμψοὺς αἱ μῆτραι’. ἐνταῦθα γὰρ σαφῶς νοεῖν ἔνεστι δύνασθαι τοῦτο τὸ καταβληθὲν εἰς τὴν μήτραν σπέρμα, ὅπερ ἦν ζῴου φύσις. ὀλίγον γὰρ ὂν τῷ πλήθει πολὺ τῇ δυνάμει γίγνεται καὶ δείκνυσιν τὴν ἀρχηγὸν αἰτίαν καὶ τὴν τῆς ζωότητος οὐσίαν. καὶ ὥσπερ τὸ ἐν τοῖς ‖ πυρίταις πῦρ ἢ τὸ ἐν τιτάνῳ συνεσπαρμένον οὐκ ἄν τις φήσαι μὴ εἶναι πῦρ, ὅτι μὴ καίει (γίγνεται γὰρ ἐνεργείᾳ τότε πῦρ, ἡνίκα ἂν ὕλης λάβηται καὶ τῆς ἔξωθεν ἀπὸ τοῦ παντὸς εἰσπνοῆς), οὕτως οὐδὲ τὸ καταβληθὲν εἰς τὰς…","divisions":[{"label":"19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg002.local001/#tlg0530-tlg002-local001-19"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg002.local001/#tlg0530-tlg002-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0530.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}