Antonius Musa
Antonius Musa (
Musa's brother was Euphorbus, physician to king Juba II of Numidia, after whom the plant Euphorbia, which has given its name to a scientific genus, was originally named.
A short medical treatise called De Herba Vettonica describing the properties of betony has been transmitted under his name, but is thought instead to have been written in the 4th century. It seems to have been a source for the Roman medical writer Theodorus Priscianus.[4]
According to
References
Classical
- Perseus Project.
- Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Augustus 58, 79; online text at the Perseus Project.
- Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.30.3-6; online text in Greek at the Perseus Project.
- Virgil, Aeneid XII.391-402; online text at the Perseus Project.
Modern
- ISBN 9781139495035.
- ^ Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 1916. pp. 2076–9
- ^ Arabic Mauz meaning Musa or banana is in the medieval Arabic medical encyclopedia by Avicenna, which is online at Avicenna: Book Two. See also "Musa" at Dictionary.Reference.com. See also Musacées in Dictionnaire Étymologique Des Mots Français D'Origine Orientale, by L. Marcel Devic (year 1876).
- ^ D. R. Langslow, Medical Latin in the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 67-68
- ISBN 9780230617155.
External links
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