Miscellanies · §62

Crow-fat or hedgehog-ash drench for dropsy

Of Africanus: toward a dropsical. Drench with crow-fat together with twenty ounces of wine, warm; or drench with the ash of a burnt land hedgehog in wine.

Greek

3.12 Ἀφρικανοῦ· πρὸς ὑδρωπικόν Στέαρ κορώνειον σὺν οἴνῳ ˉγˉο κʹ ἐγχυμάτιζε θερμῷ, ἢ χερσαίου ἐχίνου καυθέντος τὴν σποδιὰν οἴνῳ ἐγχυμάτιζε.

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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