Abdomia, Libyan phriton, and the Roman apple
Of the so-called abdomia, ten xestai, and as much Libyan stagmas of fortunate Libya (which the locals call phriton), and a bundle of Cretan hyssop, and the Roman apple (called orbiclatum), mixing them with sixteen cotylai of honey, boil with a fig branch for three days and three hours each day on a gentle fire, and that too will turn out.
Greek
Τῶν καλουμένων «ἀβδωμίων» ξέστας δέκα καὶ στάγματος Λιβυκοῦ Λιβύης τῆς εὐδαίμονος (ὃ δὴ «φρίτον» οἱ ἐπιχώριοι καλοῦσι) τοσοῦτον ὑσσώπου τε Κρητικοῦ δέσμην καὶ μῆλον τὸ Ῥωμαϊκὸν («ὀρβικλάτον» δὲ καλούμενον) ἅμα μέλιτος κοτύλαις ἑκκαίδεκα κιρνῶν, ἕψει <σὺν> συκίνῳ κλάδῳ ἐφ' ἡμέρας τρεῖς ἠδ' ὥραις τρισὶ καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν μαλακῷ πυρί, κἀκεῖνος ἀποβήσεται.
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
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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