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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Hephaistos and Athena 231

sundry other rites, after which she filled a whole waggon with the
earth, took it to the town, and made it into the famous Lemnian
seals1. He asked if there was anything in the tradition that the
blood of he-goats or she-goats had been first mixed with the earth,
but was laughed at by those who heard him. One of them, a
Prominent citizen of Hephaistias, furnished him with a treatise
setting forth all the virtues of Lemnian earth, and said that he
himself used it in cases of wounds, snake-bites, bites of savage beasts,
Poisonous drugs, etc. So Galen, much impressed, got 20,000 of the
seals and did not scruple to try them2. Elsewhere3 he complains
that dangerous imitations of the real seals were put on the market.
•Philostratos4 of Lemnos (c. 235 A.D.) informs us that Philoktetes,
when left on the island, was promptly healed by means of Lemnian
eai"th, a sovereign remedy for madness, hemorrhage, and the bite of
the water-snake. F. W. Hasluck5 has traced the further fortunes of
this specific from the pharmacopoeia of Paulos the Aeginetan6
through medieval7 to modern times. C. Fredrich8 in his valuable

. 1 Id. ib. (xii. 169 f. Ktihn) describes in detail their manufacture: ravTTjv yap rot tt\v yrp>
^ ^peta Xapfidvovaa fierd tlvos iirixwpiov Ttprjs, ov fawv dvopifwy, dXXd irvpCiv Kal KpiOG>v
""TiiiiSo^j/cdc rip x"P'<f>> Kopdfei p-tv cis tt)v iro\iv ava(pvpadaaa i)baTi Kal inp\bv vypbv epya-
"Jipiv-q Kax ToQT0V rapdiiaa-a a<poSpu>s, (It' edcracra /caracmjcai, wpGrrov piv aipaipei to i?7r(7roX7js
h&top, elg' al',Ty T0 Xi7rap6v rijs 777s Xa/3oD<ra Kal pbvov diroXiTroOffa to i>0if>;Kds XiflwWs
T^ Kai \//ap.p.u>5£s, OTrep Kal axp^^bv iaTiv, &XPL to^ovtov ^palvei tov \nrapbv mjKbv dxpts
, " e*s "io-TaaLv acpLKTirai fia\aKov K-qpov, Kal to6tov \ap.f3dvovaa popia apiKpa tt)v Updv T7js
^Wc'p-iSos eirifidWei atppayiSa, /c&VeiTa TrdXic ev CKia ^rjpatva, /xe'xP'S dicpi/3(2s Sjhk/xos
""""TfXejrO^ Kal yivr/rai toDto 5tj r6 yivatSKbpevov iaTpoh dVaffi tpdppaKov i] \-qpvla atppayU.
In addition to the immediate sequel cp. Galen. pAdobos OtpairtvTiKri 4. 7 (x. 298 Kiihn),
• M*. 329 Kiihn), irepl avT(p.^a\\optvuv (xix. 734 Kiihn).
Galen, irepl avTibbruv 1. 2 (xiv. 8 Kiihn).

Philostr. her. 6. 2 KaTa\ei<p9r}i'ai fiiv yap ec X-qpivip tov iiXo/crijTTjc, ov p.t)v Iprjpov tG>v

tpo-TcevabnTuv^ ovb' dTreppippivov tov "EXKt)vikoZ- ...tadrjvai d' avTov amUa virb T17S fiwXov

j?s -^VPvlas, is Tjv XiyiTai vcativ 6"H0ai<7Tor it b" (XaCvei pxv tos paviKas vboovt, iKpayiv

aiMa i'o-^ei, vbpov 8' larai pbvov brjypa epireTwv.

F.W. Hasluck 'Terra Lemnia' in the^4««. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1900—1910 xvi. 220—230
*"h 5 figs.

Paul. Aigin. de re med. 7. 3 (ii. 203, 20 ff. Heiberg).

H. F. Tozer The Islands of the Aegean Oxford 1890 p. 260 'In Western Europe it
as known from an early period as terra sigillata; but the original Greek term sphragis
So found its way into the pharmacopoeias of the West, where it appears in such corrupt
°rms as lempnia frigdos, and even lima fragis* {'Alphita, a Medico-Botanical Glossary,
Mowat, in the Anecdota Oxoniensia, pp.96, 219. The compiler of the Glossary remarks,
e'"pniafrigdos terra est sigillata.' 'Frigdos' is a corruption of a<ppayibos, the genitive
.^Se being used, as Mr Mowat has pointed out to me, on account of the form employed
a doctor's prescription).' Kartholomaeus Anglicus (s. xiii A.D.) London 1535 Lib. 15.
39> 98 has more to say: 'A serten veyne of the erthe is called Terra Sigillata, and is
.^"gularly cold and drie. And Dioscorides calleth it Terra Saracenica and argentea, and
somedeale white, well smellynge and clere. The chief virtue thereof byndeth and
^uncheth.' Ftc.

c- Fredrich 'Lemnos' in the Ath. Mitth. 1906 xxxi. 72 citing A. Conze Reise auf
 
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