A hair-dye kept forever: lees, acacia, alum, green walnuts
Of Africanus: a dye of hairs guarded eternally. Of lees, of black acacia, of round alum, of polytrichon, of each one ounce; of oak-gall two staters and one keration; ten green walnuts; of black myrtle from blood lock measure unrestored; of ladanum one ounce; of old black wine five litrai. Boil all with wine until it is reduced to a third, and having mixed it in, dip the hairs three nychthemera, and you will wonder.
Greek
3.14 Ἀφρικανοῦ· βάμμα τριχῶν αἰωνίως φυλαττόμενον Σφέκλης, ἀκακίας μελαίνης, στυπτηρίας στρογγύλης, πολυτρίχου, ἀνὰ ˉγˉο ʹ, κηκῖδος στατ. βʹ κερατ. ʹ κάρυα χλωρὰ ιʹ, μυρσίνης μελαίνης ἀφ' αἵματος ˉλˉι α#161ʹ, λαδάνου ˉγˉο ʹ, οἴνου παλαιοῦ μέλανος ˉλˉι εʹ. Ἕψει πάντα μετὰ οἴνου ἕως ἀποτριτωθῇ, καὶ προσμήξας ἔμβαπτε τὰς τρίχας νυχθήμερα γʹ καὶ θαυμάσεις.
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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