Stop a kicking mule with box-seed
For a kicking mule. There is no use in a pack-animal that is healthy but mutinous, either otherwise disobedient or also kicking. For the obedience of horses the Roman voice is set forth. You will stop a kicking mule by boiling the seed of box and the caltrops in wine and giving it to drink; and for you she will remain tame for the months whose numeral is blank in the lock.
Greek
1.13 Πρὸς ἡμίονον λακτίζουσαν Οὐδὲν δὲ ὄφελος ὑγιαίνοντος μὲν ὑποζυγίου, στασιάζοντος δὲ ἤτοι ἄλλως ἀπειθοῦντος ἢ καὶ λακτίζοντος. Εἰς μὲν οὖν τῶν ἵππων τὸ πειθήνιον ἡ Ῥωμαία πρόκειται φωνή. Λακτίζουσαν δὲ παύσεις ἡμίονον, τὸ τῆς πύξου σπέρμα <καὶ> τοὺς τριβόλους οἴνῳ ἀφεψήσας καὶ ποτίσας· καί σοι ἐπὶ μῆνας ʹ τιθασὸς μενεῖ.
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
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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