Aristotle, On the Generation of Animals 2.1, 734a16 = Orph. 404 Bernabé
τὰ οὖν ἄλλα πῶς; ἢ γάρ τοι ἅμα πάντα γίγνεται τὰ μόρια οἷον καρδία πνεύμων ἧπαρ ὀφθαλμὸς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον, ἢ ἐφεξῆς ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς καλουμένοις Ὀρφέως ἔπεσιν· ἐκεῖ γὰρ ὁμοίως φησὶ γίγνεσθαι τὸ ζῶιον τῆι τοῦ δικτύου πλοκῆι.
What about the other parts? Do all the parts really emerge simultaneously, i.e. heart, lung, liver, eye and each of the others; or in succession, as in the so-called poems of Orpheus? For there he says that a living creature comes into being in a manner similar to the weaving of a net.
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