{"id":11020,"date":"2012-07-01T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/?p=11020"},"modified":"2020-11-11T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:23:28","slug":"a-cure-for-madness-quintus-serenus-liber-medicalis-1-87-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2012\/07\/01\/a-cure-for-madness-quintus-serenus-liber-medicalis-1-87-99\/","title":{"rendered":"A cure for madness (Quintus Serenus, Liber Medicinalis 1.87-99)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quintus Serenus 1.87-99<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grave relief of a Greco-Roman doctor.Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sk 804. Photo Johannes Laurentius.<\/p><\/div>\n

ex vitio cerebri phrenesis <\/a>furiosa movetur 87
\namissasque refert frendens amentia vires,
\nsive calens febris iactatos exedit artus
\nsive meri gustus seu frigoris efficit aura. 90
\nconvenit calidis pecudum pulmonibus apte
\ntempora languentis medica redimire corona.
\ninlotis etiam lanis suffire memento
\ncerritum; saepe horrendi medicantur odores.
\nnon semper praesens dolor est sanabilis: ergo 100
\ncura magis prodest venturis obvia morbis
\natque ideo sanos etiam curarier est par. 95
\npurgatur cerebrum mansa radice pyrethri,
\nunguitur et sucis, dederit quos parva sabucus,
\nexpressusque hederae mandatur naribus umor
\naut mixtum rutae cerebro instillatur acetum.<\/p>\n

Quintus Serenus was the author of\u00a0Liber Medicinalis<\/a><\/em>, a collection of therapeutic recipes. It cannot be dated very closely, but evidently derives from somewhere in the 2nd to 4th centuries AD. For more information about books check this out<\/a>. In this excerpt he discusses cures for phrenesis<\/em>, a kind of mental derangement accompanied by fever. The translation here is my own (in fact I don’t think this work has ever been translated into English, but there is a French edition<\/a>, which I have not seen). The discussion of the various forms of madness in Roman medical texts is derived from my book,\u00a0Ancient Rome in So Many Words<\/a><\/em>. My other podcast of a bit of Serenus is here<\/a>. The Latin text is from PHI, which atypically does not itself list a source. Hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n

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