Laurel plaster and hive-smoke against bees and wasps
Of the same: against bees. Against the insects — wasps, bees, hornets, tenthrēdones, bombylii, and bembices — plaster leaves of laurel, or of mallow, or of sisymbrium, or of coriander. Dung smeared on also works, and fig-sap with mulberry leaves, or calamint, or lentil anointed with oil. Root of wild cucumber boiled together with oil keeps the creatures unstruck <...>; therefore one must anoint them with galbanum and oil. Likewise this, being fumigated before the hives are opened, keeps them unstung; or anoint having rubbed melissa with oil; or fumigate dung or sage. Every insect sprinkled with oil is killed.
Greek
3.29 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ· πρὸς μελίσσασ Πρὸς δὲ τὰ ἔντομα, σφῆκας, μελίσσας, ἀνθρήνας, τενθρηδόνας, βομβυλίους, βέμβικας, δάφνης φύλλα κατάπλασσε ἢ μαλάχης ἢ σισυμβρίου ἢ κορίου. Ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ βόλβιτον καταχριόμενον ὀπός τε συκῆς σὺν συκαμίνου φύλλοις ἢ καλαμίνθη ἢ φακὸς σὺν ἐλαίῳ χριόμενος. Ἄπληκτα δὲ τὰ ζῷα τηρεῖ σικύου ἀγρίου ῥίζα ἐλαίῳ συνεψηθεῖσα <...> ὅθεν ἀλείφειν αὐτὰ χρὴ χαλβάνην σὺν ἐλαίῳ. Ὁμοίως δὲ τοῦτο καὶ θυμιώμενον πρὶν ἀνοῖξαι τὰ σμήνη ἀπλήκτους διατηρεῖ, ἢ μελισσόφυλλον ἐλαίῳ τρίψαντα ἀλείφειν, ἢ βόλβιτα θυμιᾶν ἢ ἐλελίσφακον. Πᾶν δὲ ἔντομον ἐλαίῳ ἐπιρρανθὲν ἀναιρεῖται.
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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