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title: On Whitening
title_greek: Περὶ λευκώσεως
author: Zosimus of Panopolis
eul_wid: tyc-ci
eul_aid: tyc
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/zosimus-panopolis-whitening-tyc-ci"
period: Late Antique
dialect: Technical Koine
domain: Science
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# On Whitening

*Περὶ λευκώσεως*

**Author:** Zosimus of Panopolis

**eul_wid:** `tyc-ci` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/zosimus-panopolis-whitening-tyc-ci)

## Text

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ΠΕΡΙ ΛΕΥΚΩΣΕΩΣ Γιγνώσκειν ὑμᾶς θέλω ὅτι πάντων ἐστὶν κεφάλαιον ἡ λεύκω σις· μετὰ δὲ τὴν λεύκωσιν, εὐθὺς ξανθοῦται τὸ τέλειον μυστήριον. Ἡ λεύκωσις καῦσίς ἐστιν· ἡ δὲ καῦσις, ἀναζωπύρωσις· αὐτὰ γὰρ ἑαυτὰ καίουσι καὶ ἀναζωπυροῦσι, καὶ αὐτὰ ἑαυτὰ ὀχεύει, καὶ ἐγκυοποιεῖ καὶ ἀποτίκτει τὸ ζητούμενον ζῶον κατὰ τοὺς φιλοσόφους. Ἐὰν λευκώσῃς, εὐκόλως βάψεις· εἰ δὲ καὶ ἰώσεις ἢ κινναβα ρίσεις, μακάριος ἔσῃ, ὦ Διόσκορε · τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν τὸ λυτρούμενον πενίας, τῆς ἀνιάτου νόσου.

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