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Aristotle
On the Gait of Animals

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1 12| arms backwards, their legs forwards; quadrupeds their forelegs 2 12| quadrupeds their forelegs forwards, their back legs backwards, 3 12| leg has its articulation forwards, impossible if it be backwards. 4 12| backwards. For, if it be forwards, the stretching out of the 5 12| while the body is going forwards, but, if the other way, 6 12| that is, backwards and one forwards; for in the bending together 7 12| shin would move the foot forwards away from the flexion; whereas, 8 12| whereas, with the flexion forwards, the progression described 9 12| necessarily bend their front legs forwards. For these lead off first 10 12| flexion of the hind legs were forwards the lifting of these feet 11 13| in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse 12 13| in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, 13 13| but the wrist of the hand forwards, and again the shoulder 14 13| and again the shoulder forwards. In like fashion, too, in 15 13| hip backwards, the knee forwards, the ankle in the opposite 16 13| opposites, the shoulder bending forwards, the hip backwards; wherefore 17 13| and the wrist of the hand forwards.~ 18 14| progression would be a stumbling forwards with the hind parts as it 19 14| only animal that moves not forwards, but obliquely. Yet since 20 14| but obliquely. Yet since forwards is a distinction relative 21 14| exception but in this sense move forwards.~ 22 15| neither stand still nor go forwards.~Again, the bird though 23 15| in this way would follow forwards as they are carried along 24 16| have had their flexion both forwards and backwards; on account 25 16| on account of leading, forwards; and on account of following, 26 16| polypods; they do not progress forwards except in the sense explained


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