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Aristotle
On the Gait of Animals

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wings

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1 4 | mean feet for example, or wings or similar organs) have 2 5 | points of motion, two are wings in the one, hands and arms 3 9 | straightening and bending their wings to fly, the other their 4 10| nor walk without their wings. Even a man does not walk 5 10| character of their feathery wings is not proportionate to 6 10| body; this is heavy, their wings small and frail, and so 7 10| frailty both of the actual wings and of the outgrowths upon 8 11| it holds its body now the wings are naturally useful to 9 11| would be as useless as the wings of Cupids we see in pictures. 10 11| similar being permits of wings; not only because it would, 11 11| but also because to have wings would be useless to it when 12 15| same. That is, in birds the wings are a substitute for the 13 15| beginning of change is from the wings (as in quadrupeds from the 14 15| movement. And so if the wings be cut off a bird can neither 15 15| fishes. Among birds the wings are attached obliquely; 16 15| animals, and the feather-like wings of insects. In this way 17 18| locomotion. Birds have their wings on the superior part, similarly 18 18| under parts and near the wings; similarly, most fish have


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