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

The Michigan Medical Codex 129
but the ingredients and amounts and direction are exactly the same as in the
parygron recipe of Galen XIII 953. In Orib.Fr. 102 ( = IV 615,15) the recipe
is called Xeudn raLpuypoc.
In Aet. XV, p.80, the parallel parygron recipe is entitled t ncpuypoc,
with no conflicting variants in the MSS. But p.46 has a recipe called,h 6x'
i5bpeXaXcou, at the end of which is the following: TOVTO Ev o6v 0 XVCCLV &p>LOT
T6L,
C@ ( vP 6 &avuypoc 6vo4aCo>e'n xai at (read Tla) TCpLPaTXTccxa (sc. 4paRa),
with the evidence of the MSS given as nTavuypoc VW", r&puypocBB. Since the
recipe is composed of 1 lb. of litharge and 2 lbs. each of oil and water,
there is reason for it to be called a panygros, a quite moist medication,
rather than a parygros, a somewhat moist medication. This is true also of
the recipe on p.126, entitled TO navUypov r1ctRnvots, &X7xc To napTonyopoQv
Raxou6ievov. 30) The recipe was taken from Gal. XIII 424-5 where the same
ingredients with the same amounts are found, and the words nAoTL YOpLl{ov and
&vw'6uvov are used to describe it. It is quite different from the parygron:
there is no wax; and pig fat, the largest item in the parygron, is here the
smallest = one-half part; there is one part each of white lead and litharge;
and two parts each of oil and water.
7-8. vt Tas[pov]lTy qxapuat&y: "a medication not to be despised." The
adjective is seemingly quite infrequent (cf. LSJ, s.v.). The verb is used by
Alexander Trallianus (II 349) 31) in connection with a recipe: LCxUpOv SCTL
To faofinvt.a
iax II' u povncic
Lo. TIO 6TEXEC T5V 6%C75v,
"it is a powerful
remedy, and you should not despise it because of the cheapness of its in
gredients." Cf. Aet. XV, p.98, where another recipe for a plaster, which
contains only litharge, arsenic, and oil, is concluded by the following:
aoTf nvVU ucaXf Rat v ITcLpOV6L p
T nC Uc TSXacc. "This is an altogether ex
cellent application. Do not despise it because of its inexpensiveness."
8-9. clE'-oc *U[.?]iLOU TpocpaTou o (CPLV