The dipsas: thirst until drinkers burst; citron helps
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Of the same: about a dipsas.The dipsas itself is also many-named: It is called causon and prestes from what it puts on, and melanouros and ammodutes from its appearance and diet — a beast smaller than a viper and harder.For it makes in those bitten burnings and a thirst stretched on until the drinkers burst.
Toward the bite of a dipsas, then, a cyperus-drench through wine and water benefits, and ladanum pounded and given with wine; and still the hesperian apple called citron, drunk beforehand, is antipathic, and drunk after it helps, especially the gilding of it.