Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke.

Date:
1830
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Credit: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Si fugis obscoenas—pcenas—ternas baraforMTw Quorum—-pressum—durcE—fuerunt mihi cura. 2. In a variety of these, the versus immediati de- cessii, the end of one rhyming word formed another word which rhymed of course with it. Rumpas heUorum lorum, vim confert a.morum Morum verorum, rorum tu plena polorum. 3. In the repetorii every final syllable was the be- ginning of the next word. Pravi vitentur turhamen mente ^enentes. Jure retracten^Mr ^wrgescere repetentes. 4. Versus capitati had the beginning of the first line at the end of the second^ by the figure epana- lepsis. Fac Katerina pia, precibus pia corda juvari, Foedos purgari fac Katerina pia. In this measure is a hymn of Coelius Sedulius of 110 lineS:, one couplet is thus: Solafuit muUer patuit qu^ Janua leto: Ex qua vita redit solafuit mulier. 5. The retrogradi reciproci repeated the first words of a line at the end of it, with other repetitions and transpositions.