What is in the seventh book of the Miscellanies

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Table of contents. These things are in the seventh book of Africanus's Cesti: 1. On arming. 2. On the destruction of enemies. 3. On athletic contest. 4. For the cutting of one who has been struck. 5. For a wound from iron. 6. Taming a horse. 7. That a horse may not neigh. 8. For a horse's cataract. 9. That a horse may not be startled. 10. On the speed of horses. 11. The horse-frightener. 12. For the destruction of pack-animals. 13. For a kicking mule. 14. Military hunting. 15. To find the breadth of a river and the height of a wall. 16. Theft of sound. 17. A means of staying awake. 18. For a fight against elephants. 19. Paradoxes of farming. 20. A seal concerning the missile.

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Πίναξ Τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ <ζʹ> τῶν Ἀφρικανοῦ Κεστῶν· αʹ Περὶ ὁπλίσεως. –βʹ Περὶ πολεμίων φθορᾶς. –γʹ Ἀγωνιστικόν. –δʹ Πρὸς τομὴν πληγέντος. –εʹ Πρὸς τὴν ἀπὸ σιδήρου πληγήν. – ʹ Ἵππου τιθασία. –ζʹ Μὴ χρεμετίσαι ἵππον. –ηʹ Πρὸς ἵππων ὑπόχυσιν. –θʹ Ἵππον μὴ πτοεῖσθαι. –ιʹ Περὶ ἵππων τάχους. –ιαʹ Ταράξιππον. –ιβʹ Πρὸς ὑποζυγίων φθοράν. –ιγʹ Πρὸς ἡμίονον λακτίζουσαν. –ιδʹ Θήρα στρατιωτική. –ιεʹ Ποταμοῦ πλάτος εὑρεῖν καὶ τείχους <ὕψος>. –ι ʹ Ἤχου κλοπή. –ιζʹ Ἀγρυπνητικόν. – ιηʹ Πρὸς ἐλεφάντων μάχην. –ιθʹ Γεωργίας παράδοξα. –κʹ Ἐπισφράγισμα περὶ βέλους.

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Julius Africanus's Miscellanies: history, science and craft, in the fragments that survive, with books 7, 2 and 3 in full and parts of books 4, 8, 9 and 13.

This volume gathers the translated fragments, drawn from books 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 13: poisons and antidotes, veterinary charms, military stratagems, and the farm and household lore of the ancient world.

Julius Africanus (c. 160–c. 240) was a Christian scholar of the early third century, best known for the Chronographiai — the first Christian attempt at a universal chronology from creation to his own day. He wrote from Emmaus in Palestine and moved in the highest Roman circles.

The Cesti ("embroidered girdles") were his wide-ranging miscellany of curiosities, spanning military science, farming, medicine, and natural marvels. Only fragments survive, quoted by later Byzantine writers.

Fresh English from PG 10 Greek of the Cesti fragmenta through 9.5.

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