[406] Owing to the vagueness of the word συνιστάται this must be translated here by a periphrasis such as "an individual is formed." The verb συνιστάναι is used by Aristotle to express not only the immediate result of spontaneous generation, or the production of the embryo in sexual generation, but also the curdling of milk, the condensation of vapor into water, and even the constitution of the universe.
[407] θερμαινομένων τῶν σωματικῶν ὑγρῶν.
[408] Aristotle: On the Generation of Animals, 762a, 18-24.
[409] ἡ δὲ θάλαττα ... σωματώδης, πολλῷ μᾶλλον τοῦ ποτίμου ... ἐστί. Aristotle: On the Generation of Animals, 761b, 8-12. Compare 761a, 33 to b, 2.
[410] περίττωμα.
[411] I.e., the female animal.
[412] I.e., in the higher animals.
[413] συνίστησιν.
[414] κίνησιν ἐντίθησιν.
[415] Aristotle: On the Generation of Animals, 762a, 35 to b, 19.