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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    Delicias tibi scis varias scis tradere dias. Postulo te venias, das retio sevitias. 10. Pentametri rithmice retrogradiet interlaqueati. Ccelum fac recoli condita vota deo, Coelum sterne doli perdita redde reo. 11. Retrograde verses, the same backwards and forwards: Ecce tenet sedes sanas, sedes tenet ecce Abba suus summas, summus suus Abba. Odo tenet mulum, madidam mappam tenet Anna. In the Anthologia are some poems of this kind, entitled KapKivot c-rLxoi^ or crab verses^. As UPON THE TOMB OF DIOMEDES : H^t] fxoi Aloq dpa Trr^yrj Traga aoi, Aiofirjdt]. Nocrw av og iajua, Irjaov, awaov.— liOipbg tywyt ijSr) G)v dv(x}, xajod tCjv dvio, yfXw rd Karw Xcywa/ dv, m rapaj^Cjv dv(o, ijdr] eyaiyf ao^bg, 12. Retrogradi tam sententid quem metro. Te fore lunaticam dico non, nomino puram: Nomino tricam non, coelicolara voco te. * Ed. de Bosch. lib. vi. tit. 3. vol. iii. p. 126.