Aristotle · IA

Progression of Animals

Aristotle on the parts animals use to move — why they have the number and kind of limbs they do.

This edition presents the original Greek (Jaeger (Teubner, 1913)) side by side with an English translation (A. S. L. Farquharson) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 19 chapters.

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• Farquharson Greek & English · A. S. L. Farquharson (Oxford, 1912)

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. Jaeger, ed. Aristotelis de animalium motione et de animalium incessu. Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.
Translation: A. S. L. Farquharson (Oxford, 1912).
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Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →

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• In printA. S. L. Farquharson’s translation, revised, found in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1984) Find in print →

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