Stop a kicking mule with box-seed
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For a kicking mule. There is no use in a pack-animal that is healthy but mutinous, either otherwise disobedient or also kicking. For the obedience of horses the Roman voice is set forth. You will stop a kicking mule by boiling the seed of box and the caltrops in wine and giving it to drink; and for you she will remain tame for the months whose numeral is blank in the lock.
Greek
1.13 Πρὸς ἡμίονον λακτίζουσαν Οὐδὲν δὲ ὄφελος ὑγιαίνοντος μὲν ὑποζυγίου, στασιάζοντος δὲ ἤτοι ἄλλως ἀπειθοῦντος ἢ καὶ λακτίζοντος. Εἰς μὲν οὖν τῶν ἵππων τὸ πειθήνιον ἡ Ῥωμαία πρόκειται φωνή. Λακτίζουσαν δὲ παύσεις ἡμίονον, τὸ τῆς πύξου σπέρμα <καὶ> τοὺς τριβόλους οἴνῳ ἀφεψήσας καὶ ποτίσας· καί σοι ἐπὶ μῆνας ʹ τιθασὸς μενεῖ.