Rue bolus, and “abbas” on tin against the scorpion
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An easy-to-get antipathic: of the same. Twenty leaves of rue, two royal walnuts, one grain of salt, two dried figs: giving these first to a fasting horse in a drench, you will make it be harmed by no drug or any other venomous thing. And toward not being bitten by a scorpion, write on a tin plate: “abbas,” and bind this around the neck of the animal.
Greek
3.23 Ἀντιπαθὲς εὐπόριστον· τοῦ αὐτοῦ Πηγάνου φύλλα κʹ, κάρυα βασιλικὰ βʹ, ἁλὸς χόνδρον αʹ, ἰσχάδας βʹ νήστει ἵππῳ προδιδοὺς ἐν ἐγχυματισμῷ ὑπ' οὐδενὸς φαρμάκου ἢ ἄλλου τινὸς ἰοβόλου κακωθήσεσθαι ἐργάσῃ. Εἰς δὲ τὸ μὴ δηχθῆναι ὑπὸ σκορπίου εἰς κασσιτέρινον πέταλον ἐπίγραψον· «ἀββάς», καὶ περιδέσμει τοῦτο τῷ τραχήλῳ τοῦ ζῴου.