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διὰ τί τῶν χυμῶν, ὀκτὼ τῷ γένει ὄντων, ἕνα μόνον, τὸν
ἁλμυρόν, ἀπ᾽ οὐδενὸς καρποῦ γεννώμενον ὁρῶμεν; καίτοι καὶ τὸν πικρὸν ἡ ἐλαία φέρει πρῶτον καὶ τὸν ὀξὺν ὁ βότρυς,:
εἶτα μεταβάλλων ὁ μὲν γίνεται λιπαρὸς ὁ δ᾽ οἰνώδης: μεταβάλλει
δὲ καὶ ὁ στρυφνὸς ἐν ταῖς φοινικοβαλάνοις καὶ ὁ
αὐστηρὸς ἐν ταῖς ῥόαις εἰς τὸν γλυκύν: ἔνιαι δὲ ῥόαι καὶ
[p. 378] μῆλα τὸν ὀξὺν ἁπλῶς φέρουσιν, ὁ δὲ δριμὺς ἐν ταῖς ῥίζαις καὶ σπέρμασι πολύς ἐστι.
πότερον οὖν οὐκ ἔστιν ἁλμυροῦ γένεσις ἀλλὰ φθορὰ τῶν ἄλλων τὸ ἁλμυρόν, διὸ καὶ πᾶσιν ἄτροφον
τοῖς. ἀπὸ φυτῶν καὶ σπερμάτων τρεφομένοις,
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1893. 5.
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