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[pechkin]

Не нашел перевода на какой-нибудь более понятный мне язык, а ляпсусы порождать не хочется. Помогите, кто сколько может:

“⁹⁸ ... pseudosphecem vocant vespam, quæ singularis volitat; hanc sinistra manu adprehensam subnectunt, alii vero quam quis eo anno viderit primam; viperæ caput abscisum in linteolo vel cor viventi exemptum;

⁹⁹ muris rostellum auriculasque summas russeo panno ipsumque dimittunt; lacertæ vivæ dextrum oculum effossum, mox cum capite suo deciso in pellicula caprina scarabæum, qui pilas volvit. propter hunc Ægypti magna pars scarabæos inter numina colit, curiosa Apionis interpretatione, qua colligat Solis operum similitudinem huic animali esse, ad excusandos gentis suae ritus.”

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[miram.livejournal.com]

Первое:

In the treatment of quartan fevers, clinical medicine is, so to say, pretty nearly powerless; for which reason we shall insert a considerable number of remedies recommended by professors of the magic art, and, first of all, those prescribed to be worn as amulets: the dust, for instance, in which a hawk has bathed [p. 5454] itself, tied up in a linen cloth, with a red string, and attached to the body; the longest tooth of a black dog; or the wasp known by the name of "pseudosphex,"1 which is always to be seen flying alone, caught with the left hand and attached beneath the patient's chin. Some use for this purpose the first wasp that a person sees in the current year. Other amulets are, a viper's head, severed from the body and wrapped in a linen cloth; a viper's heart, removed from the reptile while still alive; the muzzle2 of a mouse and the tips of its ears, wrapped in red cloth, the animal being set at liberty after they are removed; the right eye plucked from a living lizard, and enclosed with the head, seperated from the body, in goat's skin; the scarabænus also that forms pellets3 and rolls them along.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&query=head%3D%232189 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&query=head%3D%232189)

[pechkin.livejournal.com]

Вау! Так и остальные книги есть в переводе Холланда на Персее? А что ж я их не находил до сих пор, вот дурень!

Впрочем, с Персеем вообще бывают проблемы -- он иногда вдруг перестает в разгар работы с ним быть доступен вообще.

И вообще, опень-офись вчера упала, и работы не получилось. :-(

[miram.livejournal.com]

Второе, там же:

the muzzle2 of a mouse and the tips of its ears, wrapped in red cloth, the animal being set at liberty after they are removed; the right eye plucked from a living lizard, and enclosed with the head, seperated from the body, in goat's skin; the scarabænus also that forms pellets3 and rolls them along.

It is on account of this kind of scarabæus that the people of a great part of Egypt worship those insects as divinities; an usage for which Apion gives a curious reason, asserting, as he does, by way of justifying the rites of his nation,

[miram.livejournal.com]

хвост от предыдущего:

that the, insect in its operations pictures the revolution of the sun.