Miscellanies · §64 · Julius Africanus

A hair-dye kept forever: lees, acacia, alum, green walnuts

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Of Africanus: a permanent hair dye. Of lees, of black acacia, of round alum, of polytrichon, of each one ounce; of oak-gall two staters and one keration; ten green walnuts; of black myrtle from blood lock measure unrestored; of ladanum one ounce; of old black wine five litrai. Boil all with wine until it is reduced to a third, and having mixed it in, dip the hairs three nychthemera, and you will wonder.

Greek

3.14 Ἀφρικανοῦ· βάμμα τριχῶν αἰωνίως φυλαττόμενον Σφέκλης, ἀκακίας μελαίνης, στυπτηρίας στρογγύλης, πολυτρίχου, ἀνὰ ˉγˉο ʹ, κηκῖδος στατ. βʹ κερατ. ʹ κάρυα χλωρὰ ιʹ, μυρσίνης μελαίνης ἀφ' αἵματος ˉλˉι α#161ʹ, λαδάνου ˉγˉο ʹ, οἴνου παλαιοῦ μέλανος ˉλˉι εʹ. Ἕψει πάντα μετὰ οἴνου ἕως ἀποτριτωθῇ, καὶ προσμήξας ἔμβαπτε τὰς τρίχας νυχθήμερα γʹ καὶ θαυμάσεις.

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