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.

  • Scuola medica salernitana.
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.

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    It should have been observed, that two lines of ■’Bernhardus INIortacensis'^, are from Q. Cicero, who -rsays, Femina nulla bona est, vel si bona contigit ulla, Nescio quo fato res mala facta bona est^. I must take this opportunity likewise to return imy best thanks to Mr, Archdeacon Wrangham for a licopy of his Psyche, which was printed only for pri- ll vate distribution. This is an elegant translation liinto Latin rhyme of Mr, Bayly’s Songs on Butter- flies, and other poems, and which has served as a b classical recreation from the severer studies of the il learned editor of Walton’s Prolegomena. I have not ■ room here for a long extract, but I cannot refrain |i from inserting the first stanza of the first song. Ah! sim Papilio natus in flosculo, Rosae ubi liliaque et violse halent; Floribus advolans, avolans, osculo Gemmulas tangens, quae suavb olent! Sceptra et opes ego neutiquam postulo. Nolo ego ad pedes qui se volutent:— Ah! sim Papilio natus in flosculo, Osculans gemmas quae suavb olent! 1 Essay, p. 59. See Ruperti Juvenal, vol. ii. p. 607, note 97. C