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Supplementum Magicum, Suppl. Mag. 76: Magical handbook: iatro-magical spells and paignia

English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.

3–8

3

ἐν βαλανείῳ τινὰ αἴρεσθαι· κυνὸς νε-

For someone in the bath to be raised up: of a de-

4

κροῦ κροτῶνα θλά̣σ̣ον εἰς τὴν ὀσφῦν.

ad dog, crush the tick onto the loins.

5

γυναικὶ ἐμπαῖξαι· θαψίας χυλῶι⟦χ⟦ει⟧λῶι⟧

To play a trick on a woman: with the juice of thapsia

6

χρῖε τὸ αἰδοῖον.

smear the genitals.

7

ἐν συ̣[μ]ποσίῳ μάχ̣ην γενέσθαι· κυνό-

For a fight to break out at a sym[p]osium: a dog-

8

δηκτον λίθον βά̣λε εἰς τὸ μέσον.

bitten stone, throw it into the middle.

Translator's note. αἴρεσθαι ('to be raised') may mean 'to have an erection' here; the sense is uncertain. Thapsia is a plant whose juice blisters the skin. After 'juice' the edition prints a cancelled writing in double brackets (χειλῶι?), not translated. The words broken across lines 3/4 and 7/8 (νε|κροῦ, κυνό|δηκτον) are broken the same way in the English. Lines 2–3: τὸ αἰδοῖον has no possessive; the practitioner's own member may be meant, the woman being the trick's victim.

The whole original: papyri.info.