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Anointing of arrows.Scythians anoint arrows with the so-called toxicon for the swift killing of those they wound.When I was seeking this, a trustworthy man gave me the drug set out below, which produces the same effect.
It is this: take the palisade-spurge, which rises into stalk-like branches; put it into a newly made earthen vessel and boil it with water until it releases all its fat into the hot water.Then draw up the woods of the plant that were put in, and throw other green ones into the same water.Draw them up again and, throwing in others, boil until the water from their juice becomes honey-like.I do not have confidence whether this has been made safely.Some of the ancients say that the venom of the viper, and of the asp and the salamander as well, is unfailing for this.