Galactites stone for plenty of milk
Of the same: into abundance of milk. The galactites stone, hung around the breasts of the animal, draws down a great deal of milk. So that it may also have plenty of still more milk, drench with the galactites stone itself, pounded, with wine and water.
Greek
3.7 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ· εἰς ἀφθονίαν γάλακτοσ Λίθος ὁ γαλακτίτης τοῦ ζῴου περιαπτόμενος τοῖς μαστοῖς πολύ τι χρῆμα τοῦ γάλακτος κατασπᾷ. Ἵνα δὲ καὶ πλείονος εὐπορήσῃ γάλακτος, αὐτὸν τὸν γαλακτίτην λίθον λελειωμένον ἐγχυμάτιζε μετὰ οἴνου καὶ ὕδατος.
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.
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Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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