Destroy enemy fields with hellebore and salt
On the destruction of fields. There are times, travelling through hostile land, when you will attempt to destroy its fields, farming hellebore; for Alexander the Macedonian, using this manner, took the Alans. Fields are also destroyed by salts being sown in them and covered with ploughs; for a long time this can put them in a very bad state.
Greek
2.2 Περὶ ἀγρῶν ἀφανισμοῦ Ἔσθ' ὅτε, διοδεύων γῆν πολεμίαν, ταύτης τοὺς ἀγροὺς ἀφανίζειν ἐπιχειρήσεις, ἐλλέβορον γεωργῶν· τούτῳ γὰρ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδὼν χρησάμενος τῷ τρόπῳ εἷλεν Ἀλανούς. Ἀφανίζονται δὲ ἀγροὶἁλῶν τε σπειρομένων ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἀρότροις ἐγκαλυπτομένων· ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον δύναται τοῦ<το αὐ>τοὺς πάνυ κακῶς διαθεῖναι.
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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- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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