Pickled echeneis so the embryo does not slip
Of the same: toward not miscarrying an embryo. Sailors take the echeneis, the fish, and pickle it, using it as a stronger drug both for not aborting and for conception. From it, being pounded, the animal that is drenched retains what is in the belly
And if someone should also apply it living to the belly of the mare when the stallion comes together with her, she will conceive both then and for the rest, and will never suffer the aforesaid slip.
Greek
3.8 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ· πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐκτιτρώσκειν ἔμβρυον Τὴν ἐχενηΐδα τὸν ἰχθὺν λαμβάνοντες ναῦται ταριχεύουσιν εἴς τε τὸ μὴ ἐξαμβλίσκειν καὶ εἰς σύλληψιν ὡς ἐρρωμενεστέρῳ φαρμάκῳ χρώμενοι. Ἐξ ἧς λειουμένης τὸ ζῷον ἐγχυματιζόμενον τὸ ἐν τῇ γαστρὶ σῶον διατηρεῖ. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ζῶσαν προσενέγκοι τις τῇ νηδύϊ τῆς ἱππάδος, ὅτε ταύτῃ ὁ ἵππος συνέρχεται, καὶ τότε καὶ εἰς τὸ λοιπὸν συλλήψεται καὶ οὐδέποτε πείσεται τὸν προειρημένον ὄλισθον.
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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