A living-beast’s tail on the right ear
That a horse may not be startled. For horses not being startled in vain by new sights or shadows, a cure is a tail attached to the right ear of the animal, cut from the beast while it was living. It lies in the seventh pentagon, over which are set the signs of hypate meson: sigma and sigma.
Greek
1.9 Ἵππον μὴ πτοεῖσθαι Καὶ τῷ μὴ πτοεῖσθαι δὲ τοὺς ἵππους μάτην θεάμασι καινοῖς ἢ σκιαῖς ἄκος ὠτὶ δεξιῷ ζῴου προσαρτηθεῖσα οὐρά, ἢν ζῶντος αὐτοῦ θηρίου ἀποκοπῇ· κεῖται δὲ ἐν πενταγώνῳ ἑβδόμῳ, ᾧ σημεῖα ὑπερκεῖται ὑπάτης μέσων, σίγμα καὶ σίγμα.
About this text
Julius Africanus, Cesti (Embroidered Girdles): a miscellany of history, science, and craft, in the surviving fragments — books 7, 2, and 3 in full, with parts of books 4, 8, 9, and 13, and the colophon of Cestus 18. The older English translates his letters only. The book-2 table of contents and a book-7 appendix are not in this volume.
New English from locked PG 10 / Khazarzar Greek of the Cesti fragmenta through 9.5. Earlier lemma-led scaffold English was discarded. Book-2 pinax and book-7 appendix held. This lock is exhausted.
Catalogue & scope
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Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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