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Galen

Isaac Hoskins /

Created on 2021-02-20 01:55:20
Modified on 2021-02-25 01:09:57
Translated by A.J. Brock
Aligned by Isaac Hoskins

Galens "On the Natural Faculties Book 1 Chapter 1

Ἑλληνική Transliterate

English

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg010.perseus-grc1:1.1

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg010.perseus-eng1:1.1

ἐπειδὴ τὸ μὲν αἰσθάνεσθαί τε καὶ κινεῖσθαικατὰ προαίρεσιν ἴδια τῶν ζῴων ἐστί , τὸ δ᾽ αὐξάνεσθαί τε καὶ τρέφεσθαι κοινὰ καὶ τοῖςφυτοῖς , εἴη ἂν τὰ μὲν πρότερα τῆς ψυχῆς , τὰ δὲδεύτερα τῆς φύσεως ἔργα . εἰ δέ τις καὶ τοῖςφυτοῖς ψυχῆς μεταδίδωσι καὶ διαιρούμενος αὐτὰςὀνομάζει φυτικὴν μὲν ταύτην , αἰσθητικὴν δὲ τὴνἑτέραν , λέγει μὲν οὐδ᾽ οὗτος ἄλλα , τῇ λέξει δ᾽οὐ πάνυ τῇ συνήθει κέχρηται . ἀλλ᾽ ἡμεῖς γεμεγίστην λέξεως ἀρετὴν σαφήνειαν εἶναιπεπεισμένοι καὶ ταύτην εἰδότες ὑπ᾽ οὐδενὸς οὕτωςὡς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀσυνήθων ὀνομάτων διαφθειρομένην , ὡς τοῖς πολλοῖς ἔθος , οὕτως ὀνομάζοντες ὑπὸ μὲνψυχῆς θ᾽ ἅμα καὶ φύσεως τὰ ζῷα διοικεῖσθαίφαμεν , ὑπὸ δὲ φύσεως μόνης τὰ φυτὰ καὶ τό γ᾽αὐξάνεσθαί τε καὶ τρέφεσθαι φύσεως ἔργα φαμέν , οὐ ψυχῆς .

Since feeling and voluntary motion are peculiar to animals , whilst growth and nutrition are common to plants as well , we may look on the former as effects of the soul and the latter as effects of the nature . And if there be anyone who allows a share in soul to plants as well , and separates the two kinds of soul , naming the kind in question vegetative , and the other sensory , this person is not saying anything else , although his language is somewhat unusual . We , however , for our part , are convinced that the chief merit of language is clearness , and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms ; accordingly we employ those terms which the bulk of people are accustomed to use , and we say that animals are governed at once by their soul and by their nature , and plants by their nature alone , and that growth and nutrition are the effects of nature , not of soul .

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