A living-beast’s tail on the right ear
Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.
That a horse may not be startled. For horses not being startled in vain by new sights or shadows, a cure is a tail attached to the right ear of the animal, cut from the beast while it was living. It lies in the seventh pentagon, over which are set the signs of hypate meson: sigma and sigma.
Greek
1.9 Ἵππον μὴ πτοεῖσθαι Καὶ τῷ μὴ πτοεῖσθαι δὲ τοὺς ἵππους μάτην θεάμασι καινοῖς ἢ σκιαῖς ἄκος ὠτὶ δεξιῷ ζῴου προσαρτηθεῖσα οὐρά, ἢν ζῶντος αὐτοῦ θηρίου ἀποκοπῇ· κεῖται δὲ ἐν πενταγώνῳ ἑβδόμῳ, ᾧ σημεῖα ὑπερκεῖται ὑπάτης μέσων, σίγμα καὶ σίγμα.