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φύσις [ῠ], ἡ,
genitive φύσεως, poetry φύσεος probably (for the sake of meter) in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 886, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1282 (Lyric poetry), 1458 (Lyric poetry), _Ionic dialect_ φύσιος: dual φύσει] Refs 5th c.BC+] (variant{φύση}) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 410e ] Refs 5th c.BC+], (φύω):
__I origin, φ. οὐδενός ἐστιν ἁπάντων θνητῶν οὐδὲ.. τελευτή [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 8.1 (compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1112a); φ. βούλονται λέγειν γένεσιν τὴν περὶ τὰ πρῶτα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 892c; ἡ φ. ἡ λεγομένη ὡς γένεσις ὁδός ἐστιν εἰς φύσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 193b12; φ. λέγεται ἡ τῶν φυομένων γένεσις [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1014b16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of persons, birth, φύσει νεώτερος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1295, compare “Aj.” 1301, etc.; φύσι γεγονότες εὖ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.134 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσει, opposed to θέσει (by adoption), [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 9.25; φύσει Ἀμβρακιώτης, δημοποίητος δὲ Σικυώνιος 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.183d ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; so ὁ κατὰ φύσιν πατήρ, υἱός, ἀδελφός, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.9.6, 3.12.3, 11.2.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also in accusative, ἐκ πατρὸς ταὐτοῦ φύσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 325 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἢ φίλων τις ἢ πρὸς αἵματος φύσιν[[ [prev. work] 1125, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.42. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 growth, τριχῶν, παιδίου, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 20, 29, compare 27: _plural_, γενειάσεις καὶ φύσεις κεράτων 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.3.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II the natural form or constitution of a person or thing as the result of growth (οἷον ἕκαστόν ἐστι τῆς γενέσεως τελεσθείσης, ταύτην φαμὲν τὴν φ. εἶναι ἑκάστου [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b33): hence, ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.1 nature, constitution, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, καί μοι φύσιν αὐτοῦ (i.e. τοῦ φαρμάκου) ἔδειξε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.303; φ. τῆς χώρης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.5; τῆς Ἀττικῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.2, compare “Oec.” 16.2, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.146, etc.; τῆς τριχός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 5.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἵματος, ἀέρος, etc., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 648a21, “Mete.” 340a36, etc.: _plural_, φύσεις ἐγγιγνομένας καρπῶν καὶ δένδρων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.74; αἱ φ. καὶ δυνάμεις τῶν πολιτειῶν [prev. author] 12.134; ἡ τῶν ἀριθμῶν φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 525c; ἡ τῶν πάντων φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.11, etc.; ἡ ἰδία τοῦ πράγματος φ. “IG” 22.1099.28 (Epist.Plotinae). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 outward form, appearance, μέζονας ἢ κατ᾽ ἀνθρώπων φύσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἢ νόον ἤτοι φύσιν either in mind or outward form, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.5; οὐ γὰρ φ. Ὠαριωνείαν ἔλαχεν [prev. author] “I.” 4(3).49 (67); μορφῆς δ᾽ οὐχ ὁμόστολος φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 496; τὸν δὲ Λάϊον φύσιν τίν᾽ εἶχε φράζε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 740 (read εἷρπε, taking φ. with ἔχων),compare “Tr.” 379 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δρακαίνης φ. ἔχουσαν ἀγρίαν probably in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1358; τὴν ἐμὴν ἰδὼν φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1071 (troch.), compare “Nu.” 503; τὴν τοῦ σώματος φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.75. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 in Medicine texts, constitution, temperament, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.2 (_plural_), +others; ἡ φ. καὶ ἡ ἕξις [prev. author] “Acut.” 43; φ. φύσιος καὶ ἡλικία ἡλικίης διαφέρει [prev. author] “Fract.” 7; φύσιες νούσων ἰητροί [prev. author] “Epid.” 6.5.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3.b natural place or position of a bone or joint, ἀποπηδᾶν ἀπὸ τῆς φ., ἐς τὴν φ. ἄγεσθαι, [[ [prev. author] “Art.” 61, 62, +others; ὀστέον μένον ἐν τῇ ἑωυτοῦ φ. [prev. author] “VC” 5, +others; φύσιες τῶν ἄρθρων [prev. author] “Nat.Puer.” 17. ] Refs]
__II.4 of the mind, one's nature, character, ἦθος ἕκαστον, ὅπῃ φ. ἐστὶν ἑκάστῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 110.5; εὐγενὴς γὰρ ἡ φ. κἀξ εὐγενῶν.. ἡ σή 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 874; τὴν αὑτοῦ φ. λιπεῖν, δεῖξαι, [prev. work] 902, 1310 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. φρενός [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 103 (_anapaest meter_); ἡ ἀνθρωπεία φ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.76; φ. τῆς μορφῆς καὶ τῆς ψυχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.2; ὀνόματι μεμπτὸν τὸ νόθον, ἡ φ. δ᾽ ἴση 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 168 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. φιλόσοφος, τυραννική, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 410e, 576a, etc.; δεξιοὶ φύσιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 489; ἀκμαῖοι φύσιν [prev. author] “Pers.” 441; τὸ γὰρ ἀποστῆναι χαλεπὸν φύσεος, ἣν ἔχοι τις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1458 (Lyric poetry), compare 1282 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Σόλων.. ἦν φιλόδημος τὴν φ. [[ [prev. author] “Nu.” 1187; ἔνιοι ὄντες ὡς ἀληθῶς τοῦ δήμου τὴν φ. οὐ δημοτικοί εἰσι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 2.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσεως ἰσχύς force of natural powers, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσεως κακία badness of natural disposition, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.140; ἀγαθοὶ.. γίγνονται διὰ τριῶν, τὰ τρία δὲ ταῦτά ἐστι φ. ἔθος λόγος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1332a40 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χρῶ τῇ φύσει, i.e. give rein to your natural propensities, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1078, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.38; τῇ φ. χρώμενος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 18; θείας κοινωνοὶ φ. NT.2Pet.1.4: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.113, variant in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 956; οἱ ἄριστοι τὰς φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 526c, compare 375b, +others: proverbial, ἔθος, φασί, δευτέρη φ. 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Misopogon” 353a. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II.4.b instinct in animals, etc., [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 278; οὐκ ἐπιστήμῃ οὐδὲ τέχνῃ ἀλλὰ φύσει 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.41.6; ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις ζῴοις ἡ αἴσθησις τῇ φ. ἥνωται, ἐν δὲ ἀνθρώποις τῇ νοήσει “Corpus Hermeticum” 9.1, compare 12.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.5 frequently in periphrases, καὶ γὰρ ἂν πέτρου φύσιν σύ γ᾽ ὀργάνειας, i.e. would'st provoke a stone, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 335; χθονὸς φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 633; especially in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, ἡ τοῦ πτεροῦ φ. “Phdr.” 251b; ἡ φ. τῶν σωμάτων “Smp.” 186b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ φ. τῆς ἀσθενείας its natural weakness, [[ “Phd.” 87e; ἡ τοῦ μυελοῦ φ. “Ti.” 84c; ἡ τοῦ δικαίου φ. “Lg.” 862d, +others] Refs]; ἡ φ., with genitive understood, [[ “Smp.” 191a, “Phd.” 109e. ] Refs]
__III the regular order of nature, τύχη.. ἀβέβαιος, φ. δὲ αὐτάρκης [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 176; κατὰ φύσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 444d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τρίχες κατὰ φύσιν πεφυκυῖαι growing naturally, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 156.7 (troch.); κατὰ φύσιν νόμος ὁ πάντων βασιλεύς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 169 (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 488b); κατὰ φ. ποιεῖν 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 112 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to παρὰ φύσιν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 395, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.17, etc.; παρὰ τὴν φ. 4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 1.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; προδότης ἐκ φύσεως a traitor by nature, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.165 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸ τῆς φ. ἥκειν εἰς θάνατον before the natural term, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Comp. Dem.Cic.” 5: frequently in _dative_ φύσει (ἐν φ. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 14)] Refs 5th c.BC+] by nature, naturally, opposed to τύχῃ, τέχνῃ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 889b, compare “R.” 381b; φύσει τοιοῦτος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 275, compare 279, +others; ὁ ἄνθρωπος φ. πολιτικὸν ζῷόν ἐστι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1253a3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ μὴ αὑτοῦ φ. ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλου ἄνθρωπος ὤν, οὗτος φ. δοῦλός ἐστιν[[ [prev. work] 1254a15; φ. γὰρ οὐδεὶς δοῦλος ἐγενήθη ποτέ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 95.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to νόμῳ (by convention), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 9, Archelaus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 482e, compare “Prt.” 337d, etc.; τὰ μὲν τῶν νόμων ὁμολογηθέντα, οὐ φύντ᾽ ἐστίν, τὰ δὲ τῆς φύσεως φύντα, οὐχ ὁμολογηθέντα 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 44 “Ai” 32 (“Vorsokr.” 5); ἅπας ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίος φύσει καὶ νόμοις διοικεῖται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.15; τοὺς τῆς φ. οὐκ ἔστι λανθάνειν νόμους 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 492; οὐ σοφίᾳ, ἀλλὰ φύσει τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 22c; φ. μὴ πεφυκότα τοιαῦτα φωνεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 79, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 14c, etc.; φύσει πάντα πάντες ὁμοίως πεφύκαμεν καὶ βάρβαροι καὶ Ἕλληνες εἶναι 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 44 “Bii” 10 (“Vorsokr.” 5)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσιν ἔχει with infinitive, it is natural, κῶς φύσιν ἔχει πολλὰς μυριάδας φονεῦσαι (i.e. τὸν Ἡρακλέα); [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.45, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 473a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἔχει φύσιν it is contrary to nature,[[ [prev. work] 489b; οὔτ᾽ εὔλογον οὔτ᾽ ἔχον ἐστὶ φύσιν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.26; τὸ τόλμημα φύσιν οὐκ ἔχει 1st-2nd c.AD: Polemo Sophista “Callimachus” 36. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV.1 nature as an originating power, φ. λέγεται.. ὅθεν ἡ κίνησις ἡ πρώτη ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν φύσει ὄντων [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1014b16; ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ ἡ φ. οὐδὲν μάτην ποιοῦσιν [prev. author] “Cael.” 271a33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ δὲ φ. οὐδὲν ἀλόγως οὐδὲ μάτην ποιεῖ[[ [prev. work] 291b13; ἡ μὲν τέχνη ἀρχὴ ἐν ἄλλῳ, ἡ δὲ φ. ἀρχὴ ἐν αὐτῷ [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1070a8, compare “Mete.” 381b5, etc.; φ. κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 123; ἡ γοητεία τῆς φ. 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.4.44 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; φ. κοινή, the principle of growth in the universe, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Cleanthes Stoicus 1.126 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; as Stoic technical term, the inner fire which causes preservation and growth in plants and animals, defined as πῦρ τεχνικὸν ὁδῷ βαδίζον εἰς γένεσιν, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 1.44, compare 35, +others, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.81 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Nature, personified, χάρις τῇ μακαρίᾳ Φ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 469; Φ. καὶ Εἱμαρμένη καὶ Ἀνάγκη 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 12; ἡ κατωφερὴς Φ. “Corpus Hermeticum” 1.14. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV.2 elementary substance, κινδυνεύει ὁ λέγων ταῦτα πῦρ καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ γῆν καὶ ἀέρα πρῶτα ἡγεῖσθαι τῶν πάντων εἶναι καὶ τὴν φ. ὀνομάζειν αὐτὰ ταῦτα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 891c, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 52 (defined as τὴν πρώτην οὐσίαν.. ὑποβεβλημένην ἅπασι τοῖς γεννητοῖς καὶ φθαρτοῖς σώμασι 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.3); τῶν φύσει ὄντων τὰ στοιχεῖά φασιν εἶναι φύσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1014b33: _plural_, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.6U., +others; ἄτομοι φ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]atoms, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 5, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.7U.; ἄφθαρτοι φ. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 83. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV.3 concrete, the creation, 'Nature', ἀθανάτου.. φύσεως κόσμον ἀγήρων [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 910 (_anapaest meter_); περὶ φύσεώς τε καὶ τῶν μετεώρων ἀστρονομικὰ ἄττα διερωτᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ φύσεως, title of works by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Gorgias, Epicurus, etc.; [σοφία] ἣν δὴ καλοῦσι περὶ φύσεως ἱστορίαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 96a; περὶ φ. ἀφοριζόμενοι διεχώριζον ζῴων τε βίον δένδρων τε φύσιν λαχάνων τε γένη 4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 11.13 (_anapaest meter_); so later, ἡ φ. τὸ ὑπὸ ψυχῆς τῆς πάσης ταχθέν 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.2.1; τὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς φ. “Corpus Hermeticum” 1.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ δύο φ., i.e. heaven and earth, light and darkness, etc., [[ “PMag.Leid.W.” 6.42. ] Refs]
__IV.4 [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus ] Refs 4th c.BC+] name for two, [[ Theol.Ar. 12. ] Refs]
__V as a concrete term, creature, frequently in collective sense, θνητὴ φ. mankind, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 590 (_anapaest meter_), compare “OT” 869 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόντου εἰναλία φ. the creatures of the sea, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 345 (Lyric poetry); ὃ πᾶσα φ. διώκειν πέφυκε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 359c, compare “Plt.” 272c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ τῶν θηλειῶν φ. woman-kind (opposed to τὸ ἄρρεν φῦλον) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in plural, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 674, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 588c, “Plt.” 306e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 13.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in contemptuous sense, αἱ τοιαῦται φ. such creatures as these, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.113, compare 20.11, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.191. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V.b of plants or material substances, φ. εὐώδεις καρποφοροῦσαι [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.49; ὑγράν τινα φ. καπνὸν ἀποδιδοῦσαν “Corpus Hermeticum” 1.4. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__VI kind, sort, species, ταύτην.. ἔχειν βιοτῆς.. φύσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 165 (_anapaest meter_); ἐκλέγονται ἐκ τούτων χρημάτων μίαν φ. τὴν τῶν λευκῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 429d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. [ἀλωπεκίδων] species, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; natural group or class of plants, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.1.1 (_plural_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__VII sex, θῆλυς φῦσα (probably to be read instead of οὖσα) κοὐκ ἀνδρὸς φύσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1062, compare “OC” 445, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 770d, 944d: hence, ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VII.2 the characteristic of sex, ={αἰδοῖον}, [[ “Tab.Defix.” 89a6 (4th c.BC), 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 107, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 32.10, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.150, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]: especially of the female organ, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.143, 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 41, 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 5.63, “PMag.Osl.” 1.83,324, 4th c.AD(?): Horapollo 1.11: _plural_, τῶν δύοφ.,] Refs 5th c.BC+] of the testes, [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 92, compare “PMag.Par.” 1.318. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
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