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COL. XXI 137
(10) [The method] of the scarab of the cup of wine,
to make a woman love a man. You take a fish-faced (?)
scarab, this scarab being small and having no horn, it
wearing three plates (11) on the front of its head; you
find its face thin (?) outwards—or again that which bears
two horns—. You take it at the rising of the sun ; you
bind (?) yourself with a cloth on the upper part of your
back, (12) and bind (?) yourself on (?) your face with a strip
of palm-fibre, the scarab being on the front (?) of your
hand : and you address it before the sun when it is about
to rise, seven times. When you have finished, you
drown it (13) in some milk of a black cow; you ap-
proach (?) its head with a hoop (?) of olive wood; you
leave it till evening in the milk. When evening comes,
you (14) take it out, you spread its under part with sand,
and put a circular strip of cloth under it upon the sand,
unto four days; you do frankincense-burning before it.
When the four days have passed, and it is dry, (15) you
take it before you (lit. your feet), there being a cloth
spread under it. You divide it down its middle with
a bronze knife ; you take (?) its right half, and your nails
of your right hand and foot; (16) you cook them on
a new potsherd with vine wood, you pound them with
nine apple-pips together with your urine or your sweat
free from oil (17) of the bath; you make it into a ball
and put it in the wine, and speak over it seven times,
and you make the woman drink it; and you take its
other half, the left one, together with your nails of your
left hand (18) and foot also, and bind them in a strip of
fine linen, with myrrh and saffron, and bind them to your
1. 15. ne-rt-t-k\ a strange spelling.
fy: so also in 1. 17.
1. 1 b.fty, &c. jjviros paXaveliov was actually prescribed as a drug,
Diosc., i. 34.
(10) [The method] of the scarab of the cup of wine,
to make a woman love a man. You take a fish-faced (?)
scarab, this scarab being small and having no horn, it
wearing three plates (11) on the front of its head; you
find its face thin (?) outwards—or again that which bears
two horns—. You take it at the rising of the sun ; you
bind (?) yourself with a cloth on the upper part of your
back, (12) and bind (?) yourself on (?) your face with a strip
of palm-fibre, the scarab being on the front (?) of your
hand : and you address it before the sun when it is about
to rise, seven times. When you have finished, you
drown it (13) in some milk of a black cow; you ap-
proach (?) its head with a hoop (?) of olive wood; you
leave it till evening in the milk. When evening comes,
you (14) take it out, you spread its under part with sand,
and put a circular strip of cloth under it upon the sand,
unto four days; you do frankincense-burning before it.
When the four days have passed, and it is dry, (15) you
take it before you (lit. your feet), there being a cloth
spread under it. You divide it down its middle with
a bronze knife ; you take (?) its right half, and your nails
of your right hand and foot; (16) you cook them on
a new potsherd with vine wood, you pound them with
nine apple-pips together with your urine or your sweat
free from oil (17) of the bath; you make it into a ball
and put it in the wine, and speak over it seven times,
and you make the woman drink it; and you take its
other half, the left one, together with your nails of your
left hand (18) and foot also, and bind them in a strip of
fine linen, with myrrh and saffron, and bind them to your
1. 15. ne-rt-t-k\ a strange spelling.
fy: so also in 1. 17.
1. 1 b.fty, &c. jjviros paXaveliov was actually prescribed as a drug,
Diosc., i. 34.