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Headword:
Pharmakon
Adler number: phi,103
Translated headword: drug, medicine, remedy, philtre, dye
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] consolation, conversation; it is said from bringing [
fe/rein] the cure [
a)/kesis]; but it is [sc. also] said from the flowers.[1]
Pharmakon is the name for what the Medes call
naphtha, but the Greeks [call] the oil of Medea. "Filling a vessel with brimstone and bitumen and a drug which the Medes call
naphtha [...]."[2]
And elsewhere: "there was pitch and brimstone and whatever drugs were able to stir up a big fire."[3]
Aristophanes [writes]: "not even if you had happened [to boil] the drug with which Lysicrates is blackened". [sc. This is said] because Lysicrates blackened his gray hair with a kind of dye.[4]
Pharmakon: paramuthia, homilia, eirêtai de apo tou pherein tên akesin: eirêtai de apo tôn antheôn. Pharmakon legetai, hoper Mêdoi men naphthan kalousin, Hellênes de Mêdeias elaion. angeion de theiou te kai asphaltou emplêsamenoi kai pharmakou, hoper Mêdoi naphthan kalousi. kai authis: pitta te ên kai theion kai hosa phar- maka dunata ên kinêsai phloga pollên. Aristophanês: oud' an ei to pharmakon etuches, hôi Lusikratês melainetai. hôs tou Lusikratous pharmakôi tini melainontos autou tas polias.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the
Synagoge and
Photius (where 'also' is explicit), similarly elsewhere. 'From the flowers' derives from the
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 4.191.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.11.36 (which reads
a)ggei=a,
vessels; cf. web address 1); cf.
mu 878 (end),
nu 90. Persians defending the garrison at
Petra (551 CE, cf.
alpha 906 note) during the Lazic War (541-562) dump jars filled with a fiery concoction onto the attacking Romans; cf. Kaldellis (485),
pi 2993, and
upsilon 243.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] A light abridgement -- omitting the participle
e(/yous' -- of
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 735-736 (web address 2), with scholion; cf.
lambda 860 for Lysicrates.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 September 2011@01:23:30.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 September 2011@07:54:06.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, link) on 1 September 2011@11:42:41.
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Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 April 2014@20:12:48.
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