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Enquiry into Plants, Vol. 2 (Loeb)
Theophrastus (trans. Sir Arthur Hort)
English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.
The work 'Enquiry into Plants' by Theophrastus is a Greek text. The Loeb Classical Library edition by Sir Arthur Hort (1916) provides an English translation from the original Greek, not from a Latin text. The user's premise that this specific volume is a translation from Latin is incorrect; it is a standard Greek-to-English translation. Therefore, it is not a translation of a Latin text.
Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs, trans. Sir Arthur Hort (1916) [complete] source
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Theophrastus provides a practical manual on the ancient world of plants, bridging the gap between field observation and early scientific classification. You will learn why certain herbs require curses for growth and how ancient farmers predicted the weather without modern instruments.