Myrmekiai: dog-mud, elaterion, heliotrope before sunrise
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Of Africanus: about figs and myrmekiai and acrochordonas.Myrmekiai are outgrowths of bodies resembling rough nails; they come to be for many in many places.They call the affection myrmekiai, which many superstitious people also set as signs of something about to happen to them.The riddance of them is various and tried by all.
Some, having watched a dog urinate on the ground, kneaded up the mud, set it on the place, and shut the cause together with the mud.Others, having rubbed elaterion and setting it on, thus prevailed.Or the flower of chicory, which is properly called heliotrope: having taken it before the rising of the sun [The text is damaged here.], draw round the place three times and the myrmekia will cease.