Four-part drench for rabid bites and hydrophobia
Of Africanus: about those bitten by rabid animals and hydrophobes and remaining bites of creeping things. The present drench is composed of four ingredients: gentian, myrrh, round aristolochia, and daphnides. Cut these in equal parts and sift, taking them up with raw honey. The dose is the size of an Egyptian bean.
Give it to those bitten by snakes in water, to those struck by scorpions in first-rate wine, as a three-day dose.
Greek
3.21 Ἀφρικανοῦ· περὶ λυσσοδήκτων καὶ ὑδροφόβων καὶ λοιπῶν δηγμάτων ἑρπετῶν Ὁ παρὼν ἐγχυματισμὸς διὰ δʹ ἔχει τὴν σύστασιν· γεντιανῆς, σμύρνης, ἀριστολοχείας στρογγύλης καὶ δαφνίδων. Ταῦτα ἐξ ἴσου κόπτε καὶ σῆθε ἀναλαμβάνων μέλιτι ὠμῷ. Ἡ δόσις κυάμου Αἰγυπτιακοῦ τὸ μέγεθος. ∆ίδου δὲ ὀφιοδήκτοις ἐν ὕδατι, σκορπιοπλήκτοις ἐν οἴνῳ πρωτείῳ διάτριτον.
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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