Lasting fire in the stables against the toad's puff
Of Africanus: so that livestock not be harmed by a toad lurking at night or in a dark place, puffing upon them. The toad is accustomed to puff upon livestock most harshly if it lurk unnoticed in a stable at night or in a gloomy place; and from this pestilential diseases follow the animals, and swellings hard to heal, so that all aid toward the danger is idle. Therefore, so that it never do such a thing, one must kindle a lasting fire in the stables; for this creature fears fire as its own check.
Greek
3.33 Ἀφρικανοῦ· πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖσθαι κτήνη ὑπὸ φρύνου νύκτωρ ἢ ἐν ζοφερῷ τόπῳ ἐμφωλεύοντος προσφυσώμενα Ὁ φρῦνος προσφυσᾶν εἴωθεν τοῖς κτήνεσι χαλεπώτατα, ἤν που ἐν ἱπποστασίῳ νύκτωρ λάθῃ ἢ ἐν ζοφώδει τόπῳ, καὶ νόσοι παρακολουθοῦσιν ἐκ τούτου λοιμικαὶ τοῖς ζῴοις καὶ οἰδήματα δυσίατα, ὡς ἀργεῖν πᾶσαν ἐπικουρίαν πρὸς τὸ δεινόν. Χρὴ οὖν πρὸς τὸ μηδέποτε αὐτὸν τοιοῦτον δρᾶσαι πῦρ ἐν τοῖς ἱπποστασίοις διαρκὲς ὑφάπτειν· τουτὶ γὰρ τὸ ζῷον ὡς ἔλεγχον αὑτοῦ φοβεῖται τὸ πῦρ.
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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