Le manuscrit de Florence Laurentianus GR. 74.5 et les écrits galéniques sur lathériaque et les antidotes

Abstract

The Author tries to characterize Laur. gr. 74.5 in De theriaca ad Pisonem, De theriaca ad Pamphilianum and De antidotis I-II (which follow one another in this order) by comparing it with the vulgate ; in these treatises Parisinus Suppl. grec 35 descends from it. He comments on a few of the most interesting glosses and variants. The Greek text gets more and more abridged, and the modus excerpendi in De antidotis becomes very wild indeeed. However ant. II, compared with the vulgate, has a supplement of 5 antidotes. The Author edits it with parallels from late medical compilations ; he wonders whether it is an accidental omission by the archetype of the vulgate or an interpolation from Aetius' latrica.

<i>On Theriac to Piso</i>, Attributed to Galen

“…The belief that vipers reproduce in this way apparently arises from a misconstrual of Nicander Theriaca 130-1 whereby κυνόδοντι is wrongly taken to govern θορνυμένου rather than ἀπέκοψεν -"C'est p.-ê. à cause de Jacques (2002) ad loc. Snakes in fact copulate as follows: both sexes have a vent called the cloaca towards the tail end.…”