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Darrera modificació: 2020-06-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich, "A most sovereign herb: Pseudo-Antonius Musa on betony", Cuadernos de Filología Clásica: Estudios Griegos e Indoeuropeos, 30 (2020), 131-148.
- Resum
- A dedicatory letter allegedly from the pen of the physician Antonius Musa links him with his most famous patient, the emperor Augustus. The tract that follows specifies the use of the plant betony for close to fifty different ailments. It heads the most widely attested collection of remedies drawn from plants and animals current in the Latin middle ages, whose main part (more than 100 sections) is attributed, again without any foundation, to the second-century writer Apuleius. This article explores Greek traces of De herba Vettonica, highlights some aspects of its first (partial) vernacular rendering into Old English, and compares similar but not identical material on betony in Pliny the Elder's Natural history and unpublished recipe collections from the early middle ages.
- Matèries
- Història natural - Vegetals
Medicina - Farmacologia
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Llatí
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Anglès
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/43296328/A_Most_Sovereign_ ...
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