Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, ed. Arthur Hort, 9.16.6

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[6] Ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἐφημέρου τὸ φάρμακον εὑρῆσθαι· ἕτερον γάρ τι ῥίζιον εἶναι ὃ ἐφήμερον ἀπαλλάττει· τοῦτο δὲ φύλλον ὅμοιον ἔχειν τῷ ἐλλεβόρῳ ἢ τῷ λειρίῳ· καὶ τοῦτο πάντας εἰδέναι· δι᾿ καὶ τὰ ἀνδράποδά φασι πολλάκις παοργισθέντα χρῆσθαι, κἄπειτα ἰατρεύειν αὐτὰ πρὸς τοῦτο ὁρμῶντα, καὶ γὰρ οὐδὲ ταχεῖαν ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν οὐδὲ ἐλαφρὰν ἀλλὰ δυσχερῆ καὶ χρόνιον· εἰ μὴ ἄρα διὰ τὸ εὐθεράπευτον εἶναι καὶ ἀκατασκεύαστον ὡς δεῖ. φασὶ γοῦν καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀπαλλάττεσθαι καὶ ὕστερον χρόνῳ τοὺς δὲ καὶ εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν ἄγειν, καὶ τὰς δόσεις ἀβοηθήτους εἶναι. ¹²³⁴ ταῦτα δὲ ἐξακριβωθῆναι μάλιστα παρὰ τοῖς Τυρρηνοῖς τοῖς ἐν Ἡρακλείᾳ.

Enquiry into Plants. Theophrastus. ed. Arthur Hort. United States. 2017.

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1. ¹ i.e. no herb having that effect.

2. 2 ἑτέρων conj. Sch.; ἕτερόν τι φύεσθαι UAld. H.; ἕτερόν τι φυόμενον conj. W. G seems to have had a fuller text.

3. ³ ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἐγχ. UM; ἀλλά τινες τοῖς ἐνεγκαμένοις βοήθειαι εὕρηνται· τοὺς γὰρ ἐγχ. Ald. H., which the indicative εὕρηνται shews to be a gloss.

4. 4 τοῦ ἐφημέρου U; τὰ ἐφ᾿ ἡμέρον M; καὶ τὸ ἐφήμερον Ald. The passage about ἐφήμερον, which interrupts the account of ἀκόνιτον, is confused, and the text probably defective; trans- lation a makeshift. The sense of εἰ μὴ . . . ὡς δεῖ being perhaps irrecoverable, the connexion of what follows is obscured. W. gives up the passage.

Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 9.16.6

ed. Arthur Hort

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