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hind 14
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13 above
Aristotle
On the Gait of Animals

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1 1 | forelegs bent convexly, his hind legs concavely. Again, quadrupeds 2 7 | A, the left B, the right hind C, the left D.)~Among land 3 12| however, the flexion of the hind legs were forwards the lifting 4 12| of the forefeet (for the hind legs, too, would in this 5 13| combinations in pairs. Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, 6 13| fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in 7 14| the reasons given. But the hind limbs move criss-cross with 8 14| fore they move the near hind, then the near fore, and 9 14| near fore, and then the off hind. The reason is that (a) 10 14| stumbling forwards with the hind parts as it were dragged 11 14| reasons the fore limbs and the hind limbs move in this separate 12 14| consecutive pairs of legs the hind move criss-cross with the 13 15| the body lighter than the hind, and so it is necessary ( 14 15| be backwards, as in the hind legs of quadrupeds. The


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