for the nomad Libyans, whether all of them I cannot say for certain, but many of them, do as follows:-when their children are four years old, they burn with a greasy piece of sheep's wool the veins in the crowns of their heads, and some of them burn the veins of the temples, so that for all their lives to come the cold humour may not run down from their heads and do them hurt:
beren haurrei, lau urte betetzen dituztenean, artile koipetsuarekin burugaineko zainak erretzen dizkiete, eta berauetako zenbaitzuei lokietakoak ere bai, helburu honengatik, hots, burutik jariatzen zaien flegmak bizitza osoan kalte egin ez diezaien.