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Alphabetical [« »] skull 1 slander 2 slaves 1 sleep 14 sleeper 1 sleepiness 1 sleeping 4 | Frequency [« »] 14 remain 14 respect 14 sexual 14 sleep 14 speaking 14 spontaneously 14 sterile | Aristotle On the Generation of Animals IntraText - Concordances sleep |
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1 II, 4| excretions are discharged in sleep if the parts concerned are 2 V, 1| animals first, or that of sleep. Since they plainly wake 3 V, 1| opposite state, that of sleep, exists in the first stages 4 V, 1| intermediate condition, and sleep seems to be in its nature 5 V, 1| original condition to be not sleep but only something resembling 6 V, 1| only something resembling sleep, such a condition as we 7 V, 1| impossible that plants should sleep, for there is no sleep which 8 V, 1| should sleep, for there is no sleep which cannot be broken, 9 V, 1| plants which is analogous to sleep cannot be broken.~It is 10 V, 1| for the embryo animal to sleep most of the time because 11 V, 1| that such is the cause of sleep). But nevertheless they 12 V, 1| immediately fall into a sleep again. This is why after 13 V, 1| spend most of their time in sleep.~When awake infants do not 14 V, 1| sense-perception and live in their sleep owing to previous habit,