Olympiodorus: Africanus called the glass pot asympoton
Olympiodorus, in On Zosimus according to activity. Salt was invented by the ancients so that the arsenic should not stick to the glass pot, which glass pot Africanus called an asympoton.
Greek
9.3 ολψμπιοδορι ιν Εἰς τὸ κατ' ἐνέργειαν Ζωσίμου Τὸ δὲ ἅλας ἐπενοήθη ἐκ τῶν ἀρχαίων ἵνα μὴ κολληθῇ ὁ ἀρσένικος εἰς τὸ ὑελοῦν κυθρίδιον, ὅπερ ὑελοῦν κυθρίδιον «ἀσύμποτον» Ἀφρικανὸς ἐκάλεσεν.
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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