legat veterum philosophorum monumenta, tandem ut intellegat non me primum haec requisisse, sed iam pridem maiores meos, Aristotelem dico et Theophrastum et Eudemum et Lyconem ceterosque Platonis minores, qui plurimos libros de genitu animalium deque victu deque particulis deque omni differentia reliquerunt.
Let him read the treatises of the ancient philosophers, and learn at last that I was not the first to investigate these subjects: it was my predecessors long ago, I mean Aristotle, Theophrastus, Eudemus, Lyco, and others later than Plato. These have left us very many books on the generation of animals, their diet, their anatomy, and all their characteristic features.
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