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 1 1|          be wondered at that the semen should remain longer inthese
 2 1|       has no power of attracting semen," or ifhe [Erasistratus]
 3 2|       namely, which flows to the semen from the impregnated female
 4 2|       say, "Either Nature or the semen," meaning the same thing
 5 2|        that which was previously semen, when it begins to procreate
 6 2|     material), so it is with the semen: its faculties it possessed
 7 2|      become a nature in place of semen, there must be an afflux
 8 2|    commensurate with that of the semen. What is it then that measures
 9 2|           which will furnish the semen with a due amount of blood?
10 2|         question? Obviously, the semen itself. This, in fact, is
11 2|        unwittingly to credit the semen with reason and intelligence;
12 2|          would be making neither semen nor a nature, but an actual
13 2|          we shall ascribe to the semen a faculty for attracting
14 2|        again, in the case of the semen, as in so many previous
15 2|       faculty. ~ And what is the semen? Clearly the active principle
16 2|          primary function of the semen be to draw to itself a due
17 2|       dew into every part of the semen, it would everywhere cease
18 2| particular character; for so the semen will easily dominate and
19 2|           by virtue of which the semen firstly surrounds itself
20 2|    showed a short while ago, the semen is nourished. But even this
21 3|      that they have received the semen which comes from the male,
22 3|       affords an entrance to the semen and an exit to the foetus. ~
23 3|       has no power of attracting semen." ~ Erasistratus, however,