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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle

“it is clear that semen is a secretion of useful nutriment, and that in its last stage”

Aristotle

Generation of Animals, Book I, Ch. 18 (726a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)

The conclusion of the long refutation of the view that semen comes from all parts of the body.

Citation: "it is clear that semen is a secretion of useful nutriment, and that in its last stage" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book I, Ch. 18 (726a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q2)

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