Scolopendra: theriac smear, asphodel drink, fig-olunthoi plaster
Of the same: about a scolopendra. The scolopendra does greater harm; but you, having smeared on some part of the theriac antidote, heal the stung place. Fruit of asphodel and the flowers, drunk with wine, counter the scolopendra; and fig-olunthoi with wine and vetch, being plastered, stop the pain.
Greek
3.27 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ· περὶ σκολοπένδρασ Η σκολόπενδρα μεῖζον μὲν ἀδικεῖ· σὺ δὲ μέρος τι τῆς ἀντιδότου θηριακῆς ἐπιχρίσας ἴασαι τὸν κεκνισμένον τόπον. Ἀσφοδέλου δὲ καρπὸς καὶ τὰ ἄνθη σὺν οἴνῳ πινόμενα σκολοπένδρας εἰσὶν ἀντίπαλα, συκῆς τε ὄλυνθοι μετ' οἴνου καὶ ὀρόβου καταπλασσόμενοι παύουσι τὴν ἀλγηδόνα.
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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