Clean spring-water three times; a donkey bears no lice
Of Africanus. To cast out the worms with unmedicated clysters, clean water is enough for me, taken in this manner: having drawn with the thumb and forefinger of the left handprinkle the place sick with the worms three times with “unmuddied stream of a spring.” They will all come out following one another, nothing being left behind inside.
Of Africanus. That a donkey, of all the animals, bears neither lice nor ticks.
Greek
3.19 Ἀφρικανοῦ Τοὺς σκώληκας κλύσμασιν ἀφαρμάκτοις ἐκβαλεῖν ὕδωρ ἐμοὶ καθαρὸν ἀρκεῖ ληφθὲν τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· ἀντίχειρι καὶ τῷ ἰατρικῷ δακτύλῳ χειρὸς εὐωνύμου ἀρυσάμενος ἐπεστραμμένως «ἀθολώτου νάματι πηγῆς» τὸν νοσοῦντα τοὺς σκώληκας τόπον τρὶς ῥᾶνον. Οἱ δὲ ἐξελεύσονται πάντες ἐφέποντες ἀλλήλοις, καταλειπομένου ἔνδον οὐδενός. 3. Ἀφρικανοῦ Ὅτι ὄνος ἁπάντων τῶν ζῴων οὔτε φθεῖρας οὔτε κρότωνας φέρει.
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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