---
title: Fragments on Natural Wonders
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Θαυμασίων Φύσεως
author: Antigonus of Carystus
eul_wid: knc-ab
eul_aid: knc
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/antigonus-carystus-natural-wonders-knc-ab"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: Biography
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Natural Wonders

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Θαυμασίων Φύσεως*

**Author:** Antigonus of Carystus

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## Text

### 3

Anecd. Par. I, 391 Cramer: Ὁ δὲ Ἀντίγονός φησι τὸ θηλύγονον καὶ ἀρρενόγονον βοτάνας εἶναι, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ συμβεβηκότος τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν εἰληφέναι· τὸν μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ποιεῖν πως θηλύνεσθαι δὲ τρίβολον ἐν οἴνῳ ἀπὸ πρωί. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἐπί τε συλλήψεως καὶ κυήσεως· ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς εἰνάτης ἰσχυροποιῆσθαι καὶ ἀφὴν ὑπομένειν· τῇ δὲ τεσσαρακοστῇ προσλαμβάνειν τὸ γελαστικὸν καὶ ἄρχεσθαι ἐπιγινώσκειν μητέρα.

### 4

Tzetz., Chil. VII, 642 sqq.: (de miris gentibus ex Scylacis libris) ὅτι δ’ εἰσὶ τῶν ἀληθινῶν ἄλλοι φασὶ μυρίοι, τοιαῦτα καὶ καινότερα θεάσασθαι ἐν βίῳ (inter quos Isigonus, Sotion, Antigonus, Alexander, Protagoras, Agathosthenes).

### 5

Tzetz., Schol. Lyc. 387: Ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῶν κηρύλων καὶ ἅ φησιν Ἀντίγονος λεκτέον· γηράσαντας τοὺς ἄρσενας ἀλκυόνας αἱ θήλειαι βαστάζουσι τοῖς πτηροῖς, ἐν δὲ τῇ συνουσίᾳ γηράσαντες οἱ ἄρρενες τελευ τῶσ ι.

### 6

Hesych. s. v. τάρανδος· ζῷον ἐλάφῳ παραπλήσιον, οὗ ταῖς δοραῖς εἰς χιτῶνας χρῶνται Σκύθα ι.

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