mixtions

Updated: February 28, 2025

For the extremity determines and constitutes the nature of the body; and mixtions, unless the mutual laying of parts by parts are thereby understood, wholly confound all those that are mixed. And, as these men say, we must admit the corruption of extremities in mixtures, and their generation again in the separation of them. But this none can easily understand.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies