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something like water. Country people, in regard to this, say that they are
voiding urine, ie. that they have an excrement, and that they feed upon dew.
If you present your finger to a cicada and bend back the tip of it and then
extend it again, it will endure the presentation more quietly than if you were
to keep your finger outstretched altogether; and it will set to climbing your
finger: for the creature is so weak-sighted that it will take to climbing your
finger as though that were a moving leaf.
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Of insects that are not carnivorous but that live on the juices of living flesh,
such as lice and fleas and bugs, all, without exception, generate what are
called ânitsâ, and these nits generate nothing.
Of these insects the flea is generated out of the slightest amount of
putrefying matter; for wherever there is any dry excrement, a flea is sure to be
found. Bugs are generated from the moisture of living animals, as it dries up
outside their bodies. Lice are generated out of the flesh of animals.
When lice are coming there is a kind of small eruption visible,
unaccompanied by any discharge of purulent matter; and, if you prick an
animal when in this condition at the spot of eruption, the lice jump out. In
some men the appearance of lice is a disease, in cases where the body is
surcharged with moisture; and, indeed, men have been known to succumb to
this louse-disease, as Alcman the poet and the Syrian Pherecydes are said to
have done. Moreover, in certain diseases lice appear in great abundance.
There is also a species of louse called the âwild louseâ, and this is harder
than the ordinary louse, and there is exceptional difficulty in getting the skin
rid of it. Boysâ heads are apt to be lousy, but menâs in less degree; and women
are more subject to lice than men. But, whenever people are troubled with
lousy heads, they are less than ordinarily troubled with headache. And lice are
generated in other animals than man. For birds are infested with them; and
pheasants, unless they clean themselves in the dust, are actually destroyed by
them. All other winged animals that are furnished with feathers are similarly
infested, and all hair-coated creatures also, with the single exception of the
ass, which is infested neither with lice nor with ticks.
Cattle suffer both from lice and from ticks. Sheep and goats breed ticks, but
do not breed lice. Pigs breed lice large and hard. In dogs are found the flea
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The Complete Aristotle
- Title
- The Complete Aristotle
- Author
- Aristotle
- Date
- ~322 B.C.
- Language
- English
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- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 2328
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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Table of contents
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156