---
title: "Ouroboros Dragon, Version 2"
title_greek: Ὁ οὐροβόρος δράκων
author: Alchemist I
eul_wid: rrg-ax
eul_aid: rrg
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/alchemist-i-ouroboros-dragon-version-2-rrg-ax"
period: Roman
dialect: Technical Koine
domain: Science
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Ouroboros Dragon, Version 2

*Ὁ οὐροβόρος δράκων*

**Author:** Alchemist I

**eul_wid:** `rrg-ax` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/alchemist-i-ouroboros-dragon-version-2-rrg-ax)

## Text

### 1

Τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ μυστήριον ὁ οὐροβόρος δράκων, τουτέστιν ἡ λείωσις τῶν σωμάτων 〈ἐκ〉 τῆς ἐργασίας αὐτοῦ.

### 2

Τὰ δὲ φῶτα τῶν μυστηρίων τῆς τέχνης αὐτοῦ ἡ ξάνθωσις.

### 2.23

Τὸ δὲ πράσινον αὐτοῦ ἐστιν ἴωσις, τουτέστιν ἡ σῆψις αὐτοῦ· οἱ δὲ πόδες αὐτοῦ οἱ τέσσαρές εἰσιν ἡ τετρασωμία τῆς τέχνης τοῦ συνθέματος· τὰ δὲ τρία ὠτία αὐτοῦ εἰσιν αἱ τρεῖς αἰθάλαι καὶ τὰ ιβʹ συνθέματα· καὶ ὁ ἰὸς αὐτοῦ, τουτέστιν τὸ ὄξος.

### 2.23

Σὺ δὲ ἐν τούτοις τὸν νοῦν ἔχων, ὦ φίλτατε ... Δράκων τις παράκειται φυλάττων τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον 〈καὶ〉 τὸν χειρωσάμενον. κ. τ. λ.

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