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Almost identical passages can be found in Qiddushin 30b, Qohlet Rabba 5.10.2, Midrash Yetsirat ha-Walad vol. 1, p. 156, 18ff. in Jellinek’s Beth ha-Midrasch.

See, for example, Berakhot 54a and Niddah 70b–71a.

See, for example, Leviticus Rabbah 14.6.

See, for example, Baruch Levine’s recent Commentary on Leviticus (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society 1989).

Lucretrius, De rerum natura 4.1208–17.

See especially Galen’s extensive treatise De semine.

De generatione animalium 4.1.764a6-11 (= frag.68A143 D.-K.).

Censorinus, De die natali 6.4.

Censorinus, De die natali 5.4. N. Sallman (Censorini de die natali liber [Leipzig: Teubner, 1983] 8 ad loc.) gives the pertinent references to the fragments of the authors mentioned, as does R. Rocca-Serra, in Censorinus: Le jour natal (Paris: Vrin, 1980), p. 45 (his French translation is on p. 8). In 6.5 and 6.8 Censorinus discusses Parmenides’ and Anaxagoras’ ideas on the role of female semen.

Needham and Hughes, History of Embryology.