Abdomia, Libyan phriton, and the Roman apple
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Of the so-called abdomia, ten xestai, and as much Libyan stagmas of fortunate Libya (which the locals call phriton), and a bundle of Cretan hyssop, and the Roman apple (called orbiclatum), mixing them with sixteen cotylai of honey, boil with a fig branch for three days and three hours each day on a gentle fire, and that too will turn out.
Greek
Τῶν καλουμένων «ἀβδωμίων» ξέστας δέκα καὶ στάγματος Λιβυκοῦ Λιβύης τῆς εὐδαίμονος (ὃ δὴ «φρίτον» οἱ ἐπιχώριοι καλοῦσι) τοσοῦτον ὑσσώπου τε Κρητικοῦ δέσμην καὶ μῆλον τὸ Ῥωμαϊκὸν («ὀρβικλάτον» δὲ καλούμενον) ἅμα μέλιτος κοτύλαις ἑκκαίδεκα κιρνῶν, ἕψει <σὺν> συκίνῳ κλάδῳ ἐφ' ἡμέρας τρεῖς ἠδ' ὥραις τρισὶ καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν μαλακῷ πυρί, κἀκεῖνος ἀποβήσεται.