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grbs-15257	Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros	Galen’s Reception in Byzantium: Symeon Seth and his Refutation of Galenic Theories on Human Physiology	2014	39	.pdf	application/pdf	14963	711	63	Ac- cording to Galen generation is an activity (ἐνέργεια) regulated by two capacities, the alterative (ἀλλοιωτική) and the shaping (διαπλαστική). Although he seems to consider that the menstrual fluid might at least make a partial contribution, as Aristotle had suggested, he then refers to the theory that the secretion found in the vagina might be female semen, while he also asks whether there might be a third kind of seed.70 In fact, in On Semen Galen considers that both male semen and menstrual blood have a material prin- ciple.71 Symeon’s objection to the inconsistencies in Galen’s theories between his works is not unreasonable, since Galen’s views in On the Natural Capacities also contrast with his statement in his On Mixtures, where he does not clarify the particular contribution of blood as distinct from that of semen in the con- struction of vessels and other parts of the fetus.72 It is notable ___ (1970) 1–52, at 10–15.	cache/grbs-15257.pdf	txt/grbs-15257.txt