Hyacinth juice and wild-grape root against every beast
Juice of hyacinth, being drenched, is antipathic to every beast. Both the root of the wild grape-plant, hung around, and the fruit, being drenched, fit toward every bite of a beast and strikes.
Greek
Ὑακίνθου χυλὸς ἐγχυματιζόμενος παντὶ θηρίῳ ἀντιπαθεῖ. Ἡ τε τοῦ ἀγρίου σταφυλίου ῥίζα περιαπτομένη καὶ ὁ καρπὸς ἐγχυματιζόμενος ἁρμόζει πρὸς πᾶν θηρίου δῆγμα καὶ πληγάς.
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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