Aristotle · MA

Movement of Animals

Aristotle on the common cause of all animal locomotion — what moves the moving animal.

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. 11 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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