The Michigan Medical Codex: P. Mich. Inv. 21 - Corso di Papirologia

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The Michigan Medical Codex 131 "and allow to stand for a time."35) The three words could not have been read without the parallel in Gal. XIII 953, which has the same direction. It is also repeated in exactly the same form in Orib.Eupor. IV 124. Orib.Fr. 102 has simply Tl TlXTO 1TC TW5v EPV x5pv; Aet. XV, p.127 has Tl TTIXTOL. &vcxvyvUe }tlTO. T65V nP65v- While Aet. XV, p.80 has an expanded form: lra TflhxTaO VLSTaL T)V ETiwPxv &VcLVLCYE , ItypOTepPo 65 ?LEVEL bL XpoVOV TLVa acL OUT) UClTC. 3PcLXZ. TflV cUcTLcLv XaOv3 Xv E. "Mix together the melted ingredients with the dried in gredients. It will remain quite watery for a time but will shortly take on consistency." 13. OLcuTr td[TOa c]aCLcTQ: the text may have had xa[TE = 6LTCLL, since the space of the lacuna, in the line above, is occupied by 3 letters, [p]ov. Cf. 12-13, cuv[Lc]ITLaT = cuvLcLCTCT.LL 13-16. For the restoration cf. Gal. XIII 399-400 po&6nXov 6 6L XvfIcWxcL Xa. cLocUp,l cL uOL CUVaXOVCL qXVOL VLLXpoLc OXTEcLv &PE11TL TO TOLOUTOV (p&pxl4xov, Lp' 3v icxi f m&apuypoc 6vo-oCoLCvtv }TflPWTTl ROLL d.XXCL TLVEC 6iIOLCLL XPflCLW65TePcL T65v Ccxup&v 68vULLv L xOVTWCV E cCLv, 6TotoUa TOtC VcEYJy&XOLc TpCiuiicicLv tLT'La EI X?V. "It is clear that such a medication is suitable for bites and abbrasions and, in a word, minor wounds. Among such medications are the cerate called parygros and some other similar preparations which are more useful than those having a strong curative property, such as the kind we apply to large wounds." Table of Ingredients and Amounts Mich. Gal. Gal. Orib. Orib. Aet. Aet. Paul. Inv. XIII XIII Eup.IV Fr. XV XV VII 21 A 953 532 124 102 p.80 p.127 17,27 pig fat 44 dr.36) 44 88 dr. 4438) 11 44 11 7 wax 24 dr.37) 24 48 dr. 24 6 24 6 4 white lead 6 dr. 6 12 dr. 6 11 6 ij 14 litharge 6 dr. 6 12 dr. 6 1i 6 1E The amounts are in ounces except where otherwise stated. Orib. Fr. 90,32 called ?1?POV Tmpuypov, and the last recipe in Fr. 90, called simply rTELpuypoc, are omitted because they are both more properly TCLVUypOL. Cf. note to lines 6-7, above. 35) "Stand together" is the basic meaning of CuVLcTfl1LL but see LSJ, s.v., V, for the meanings "make firm, contract, condense," i.e., in a medicated plaster, "take on consistency." 36) See the note to line 9, above. 37) See the note to line 10, above. 38) The printed text has x8 = 24, a typographical error for jib = 44, as shown by the Latin translation "quadraginta quatuor" at the foot of the page. The edition has no app.crit. for comparison of MSS readings.
132 L.C.Youtie Inv. 21 A verso 8.7 x 10.5 cm. ]cL.... [ Taf.VI b ]... h'L L nV XL e [ap-] yUpov [c]uvEv6cccac ?iE O'V[ov] 4 (v cX0[a0LPc]q rLuEE6nf FILOTcL (POxp1.LcX}O. rtot 6Mct up6c CXtrn ) LL0TOV' -UypoV EpOC Vo 8 o?&c 'prtfl[T]cLc 6Lv,5PoxioLc EPU La TpEEOLO [ acL ] X aV66xcO L EQUCLSXo.To.l [x]cx~ v?0pCov 6 [X-] cxom&c [Tl] TaLcLXcLo. punaci pOt XR[d n 6C TI?c1 Xo.v8pou 12 r1LL[6vO xOX]nOUC xOLT[cLyxLTO.] - -* ]... -[ - - - - - - 3. cuvevWvccc 4. TLUEL6L 6. rOL6L aLunTl Translation ... having mixed together the ... and the litharge with wine, (store it) in a clean casket. Medications on lint pledgets: the remedies are effective against ulcers. A moist tented application for spreading-ulcers, herpes, carbuncles, erysipelas, ruptures of tendons, long-standing foul ulcers, bones bare of cartilage, fistulous ulcers, fractures, ... 3. [c]uvev6ccQc(-6cac)Et' oZv[ov]: cf. 21 C, 4-6, ToLXv Lvcej (r[CD3LXX6 06]v XuXov xaL T.a TnX[Ta cuvEv]6-cac XpG. 4. nuEEL6i - nuEL6L. Cf. rL:Cnc =r.CTnc in E verso, 5. For ri in place of L, cf. Mayser-Schmoll, I i, 52f.; Gignac, I 235ff. A pyxis, originally a box made of boxwood, then of any wood, became a receptacle for holding medicines, cosmetics, etc., especially when made of metal. Cf. the references in LSJ, s.v. niEtc,39) and in the new Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. pyxis. Our scribe has omitted a main verb, e.g., xL rLno6,ou before ev xc [aap] nEEn. ) Dsc. III 11.2 has cdLn0TLEc5C0aL 6& 66L To pcpvacixov ECc xcJXaiv TuE'6o, "one must store the medicine in a bronze box." At the end of one of the thirty recipes for cicatrizing-plasters, mentioned in the Introduction and B verso, note to lines 8-11, is the following (Gal. XIII 529): eat &VEXO66VOL ELC VLoXu0B6ivrv TEuEL6c Xpflc?E RcEO&arp Lepo Lp0lT(XL, "having placed it in a leaden 39) To the two references for the word in papyri, add BGU VI 1300, 8; and, in a medical text, P.Haun. III 47, 13 TEuE6aci xoXIv (ed. pr. ... L6L xoxd v). I owe a computer printout of all the references to TuEuc in Gal. XII XIV to Prof. Ann Ellis Hanson. 40) For other scribal omissions in our codex see A, 9; B, 2, 12, 13; et al. Cf. also Introduction, ad fin.
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