Partridge-herb juice for a double ear-help
Of Africanus: toward earache. I wish to help the ears in a double manner: so that both, being in pain, they cease, and having ceased they no longer pain. For when the affection about the ear becomes hard to bear and to carry away, sores coming to be, and it rears foul-smelling pus and worms, the pain that comes about them hard to endure — partridge-herb, cheap and growing everywhere, as if nature were ambitious with what is easy to get, is chopped strongly, so that much juice of it comes to be. Then a little Attic honey is taken, and not much sharp vinegar, and a little of sea-stuffs. These, mixed and warmed, become salvation to the one in pain.
Greek
3.9 Ἀφρικανοῦ· πρὸς ὠταλγίαν Ὦτα δὲ βούλομαι τρόπῳ ὠφελῆσαι διπλῷ· ἵνα καὶ ἀλγοῦντα παύσηται καὶ παυσάμενα μηκέτι ἀλγῇ. Ὅταν γὰρ δύσοιστον καὶ ἀπόφορον τὸ περὶ οὖς γένηται πάθος ὡς ἑλκῶν γινομένων πῦά τε δυσώδη καὶ σκώληκας ἐκθρέψαι, δυσανασχέτου τῆς περὶ αὐτὰ γινομένης ὀδύνης, περδίκιος βοτάνη, εὐτελὴς μὲν καὶ φυομένη πανταχοῦ, ὥσπερ τῆς φύσεως τῷ εὐπόρῳ φιλοτιμουμένης, συγκόπτεται ἰσχυρῶς, ὡς πολὺν αὐτῆς τὸν χυλὸν γενέσθαι. Εἶτα μέλιτος Ἀττικοῦ ὀλίγον λαμβάνεται καὶ ὄξους δριμέος οὐ πολὺ καὶ ὑλῶν θαλαττίων βραχύ. Ταῦτα μιγέντα καὶ χλιανθέντα τῷ πονοῦντι γίνεται σωτηρία.
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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