Glue a great iron cut with the edible bulb
To glue a wound without a suture. Since in war some, being wounded, the division from iron being great, are the more subdued by sutures, toward this we found a natural help able to glue without a suture. It is this: pound the bulb which we eat, set it on, and it will glue beside.
Greek
2.8 Πρὸς <τὸ> πληγήν τινα ἄνευ ῥαφῆς κολλῆσαι Ἐπείπερ ἐν πολέμῳ πολλάκις τινὲς τιτρωσκόμενοι, τῆς ἐκ σιδήρου διαιρέσεως μεγάλης οὔσης, ῥαφαῖς τὸ μᾶλλον δαμάζονται, πρὸς τοῦτο φυσικὸν ἐφεύρομεν βοήθημα, τὸ ἄνευ ῥαφῆς κολλῆσαι δυνάμενον· ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο· βολβὸν ὃν ἐσθίομεν λειώσας ἐπιτίθει, καὶ παρακολλήσει.
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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