Hapant' oun tauta kai allêlois homologei kai tois emprosthen apodedeigmenois hikanôs martyrei kai ou chrê mêkynein eti ton logon; ek gar tôn eirêmenôn enestin hekastô ta kata meros hapanta kath' hontina gignetai tropon exeuriskein hetoimôs, hôsper kai dia ti pollois kôthônizomenois pampoly tachista men anadidotai to pothen, oureitai d' oligou dein hapan entos ou pollou chronou. kai gar kantautha tê te tês poiotêtos oikeiotêti kai tê tês hygrotêtos leptotêti kai tê tôn angeiôn te kai tôn kat' auta stomatôn eurytêti kai tê tês helktikês dynameôs eurôstia to tachos synteleitai tês anadoseôs, tôn men plêsion tês koilias tetagmenôn moriôn oikeiotêti poiotêtos || heautôn heneka helkontôn 214 to poma, tôn d' hexês toutois exarpazontôn kai autôn eis heauta kapeita tôn ephexês palin ek toutôn metalambanontôn, achris an eis tên koilên aphikêtai phleba, tounteuthen d' êdê tôn nephrôn to oikeion epispômenôn. hôst' ouden thaumaston oinon men hydatos analambanesthai thatton oikeiotêti poiotêtos, auton de ton oinon ton men leukon kai katharon hetoimôs anadidosthai dia leptotêta, ton d' au melana kai tholeron ischesthai te kata tên hodon kai bradynein hypo pachous. Eiê d' an tauta kai tôn hyper tôn artêriôn emprosthen eirêmenôn ou smikra martyria. pantachou gar hoson oikeion te kai lepton haima tou mê toioutou rhaon hepetai tois helkousin. atmon oun helkousai kai pneuma kai lepton haima kata tas diastaseis hai artêriai tôn kata tên koilian kai ta entera periechomenôn chymôn ê oud' holôs ê pantapasin epispôntai brachy. [299] "Of food to feeder," _i.e._ of the environment to the organism. _cf._ p. 39, chap. xi. [300] "Drawing"; _cf._ p. 116, note 2 (168). [301] For these terms (_prosthesis_ and _prosphysis_ in Greek) _cf._ p. 39, notes 5 (66) and 6 (67). [302] Lit. "through the _energizing_ (or _functioning_) of the attractive faculty"; the faculty ([Greek: dynamis]) _in operation_ is an activity ([Greek: energeia]). _cf._ p. 3, note 2 (6). [303] This chapter is an excellent example of Galen's method of reasoning _a priori_. The complementary inductive method, however, is employed in the next chapter. _cf._ p. 209, note 1 (288). [304] The deductive. [305] The _logos_ is the argument or "theory" arrived at by the process of [Greek: logikê theôria] or "theorizing"; _cf._ p. 151, note 3 (214); p. 205, note 1 (282). [306] The Greek words for the uterus (_mêtrae_ and _hysterae_) probably owe their plural form to the belief that the organ was bicornuate in the human, as it is in some of the lower species. [307] Note this expression. For Galen's views on the origin of species, _cf._ Introduction, p. xxxi., footnote (3).