Asp and haemorrhois: bedbugs, tortoise-urine, Phobius, Inarus
Of the same. A treatment for the bite of asps: very many bedbugs, being taken, are believed to be a greatest cure for those bitten by asps; or tortoise-urine being drunk and dripped on the bite, both by itself and with many bedbugs.
The physician Phobius, to those bitten by asps, was giving the snake called haemorrhois, roasting and pounding it and giving it to drink in wine; and the reverse, he was saying those bitten by a haemorrhois should use an asp likewise. For Inarus the Libyan, he was affirming, handed it down as a remedy of one another.
Greek
3.22 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀσπίδων δὲ δήγματι θεραπεία· κόρεις πλεῖστοι λαμβανόμενοι ἀσπιδοδήκτοις ἄκος εἶναι μέγιστον πιστεύονται, ἢ χελώνης οὖρον πινόμενον καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ δῆγμα ἐπισταζόμενον καθ' αὑτό τε καὶ μετὰ πολλῶν κόρεων. Ὁ δὲ ἰατρὸς Φόβιος τοῖς ὑπὸ ἀσπίδων δηχθεῖσι τὴν καλουμένην «αἱμορροΐδα» ἐδίδου τὸν ὄφιν φρύγων καὶ λειῶν καὶ ἐν οἴνῳ ποτίζων, καὶ τὸ ἀνάπαλιν τοὺς ὑπὸ αἱμορροΐδος δηχθέντας ὡσαύτως ἀσπίδι χρῆσθαι ἔλεγεν. Ἴναρον γὰρ τὸν Λίβυν ἴαμα ἀλλήλων ἔφασκεν αὐτὸ παραδεδωκέναι.
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
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Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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