Seven dates in rose-oil plaster for inflamed feet
Of Africanus: to soothe inflammations of the feet and of other parts. Having first soaked seven dates in sweet wine until they become soft, rub them with sufficient rose-oil as smoothly as possible. Then, having boiled a little equal parts of wax, fresh hog's fat, and bread-crumbs with rose-oil, pour them over the smoothed dates; having united them in a mortar, make the mixture wet as a plaster, and having applied it you will take the inflammation away at once.
Greek
3.34 Ἀφρικανοῦ· εἰς τὸ πραῦναι <φλεγμονὰς ποδῶν> καὶ ἄλλων μερῶν Φοίνικας ζʹ προβρέξας ἐν οἴνῳ γλυκεῖ ἕως ἁπαλοὶ γένωνται τρῖβε σὺν ἀρκοῦντι ῥοδίνῳ ὡς λειότατα. Εἶτα κηροῦ καὶ στέατος χοιρείου προσφάτου καὶ ψιχῶν ἄρτου ἴσα σὺν ῥοδίνῳ ἑψήσας μικρὸν κατὰ τῶν λελειωμένων φοινίκων ἐπίχει καὶ ἑνώσας ἐν θυίᾳ ποίει ὑγρὸν ὡς ἐμπλαστρῶδες καὶ ἐπιθεὶς τὴν φλεγμονὴν εὐθὺς ἀρεῖς.
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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