Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 5.10 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 5.10 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

WHENCE IT IS THAT ONE BIRTH GIVES TAVO OR THREE CHILDREN. Empedocles affirms, that the superabundance of sperm and the division of it causes the bringing forth of two or three infants. Asclepiades, that it is performed from the excellent quality of the sperm, after the manner that from the root of one barleycorn two or three stalks do grow ; sperm that is of this quality is the most prolific. Erasistratus, that superfetation may happen to women as to irrational creatures ; for, if the womb be well purged and very clean, then there may be divers births. The Stoics, that it arise th from the various receptacles that are in the womb : when the seed illapses into the first and second of them at once, then there are conceptions upon conception ; and so two or three infants are born.

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Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch — translated by John Dowel (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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