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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 57
Section 640 of 757
Canonical reference 5.57
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
δύναται δὲ καὶ μετὰ χρόνον, ἐπείπερ καὶ τὰ εἰς τὴν γῆν καταβαλλόμενα τῶν σπερμά- των οὐκ εὐθὺς ῥιζοβολοῦντα συμπλέκεται ταῖς ὑποκειμέ- ναις βώλοις. καὶ διαστήματος δὲ ὄντος ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματος τῆς μήτρας μέχρι τοῦ πυθμένος, ἔνθα καὶ τὰς συλλήψεις λέγουσι γίνεσθαι ἰατρῶν παῖδες, πάντως ἐν χρόνῳ τινὶ τὸ διάστημα |τοῦτο ἀνύειν πέφυκεν ἡ καταβαλλομένη τοῦ σπέρματος φύσις.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
But it may also happen after some time, since seeds cast into the earth do not immediately take root and become intertwined with the clods beneath them. Moreover, since there is an interval from the mouth of the womb to its bottom, where the sons of physicians say that conceptions occur, the deposited seed must naturally traverse this interval in some amount of time.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Mais elle peut aussi se produire après un certain temps, puisque les semences jetées en terre ne prennent pas immédiatement racine et ne s’entrelacent pas aussitôt avec les mottes sous-jacentes. En outre, puisqu’il existe une distance entre l’orifice de la matrice et son fond, où les fils des médecins disent que les conceptions se produisent, la semence déposée doit naturellement parcourir cette distance en un certain temps.
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