A virgin’s unfastened girdle for a horse that cannot urine
Of Africanus: about dysuria. If a horse's urine has been held, let a virgin, having loosed the girdle she wears, strike him on the face with the girdle, and immediately he will urine in a mass and the pain will cease.
Greek
3.11 Ἀφρικανοῦ· περὶ δυσουρίασ Ἐὰν ἵππου τὰ οὖρα ἐπισχεθῇ, παρθένος λύσασα ἣν φορεῖ ζώνην, τυψάτω αὐτὸν κατὰ τοῦ προσώπου τῇ ζώνῃ, καὶ παραχρῆμα ἐξουρήσει ἀθρόως καὶ ἡ ὀδύνη παύσεται.
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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