10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIPPOMANES»
Discover the use of
hippomanes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hippomanes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources on biology
The scholium explains hippomanes as the flesh on the foreheads of young foals,
used as a love-charm as in 362C 7-13; Photius, Lexicon sv. hippomanes, cited in
the apparatus to 362A 2-6 also explicitly refers to hippomanes as a charm, ...
Robert W. Sharples, Pamela M. Huby, William Wall Fortenbaugh, 1995
2
Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The ...
Tbt Hippomanej h often ga- Hippomanes, quod saepe malae legere. 281 which
the Jbepberds fftperly call Hip mentioned by HcJloJ, under the mme of
Hippomanes; but I believe there is an error in the copy of Servius, which I make
use of, ...
Publius Vergilius Maro, John Martyn, 1755
3
The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle
He placed there likewise the articles of L. Cassius Hemina, of C. Cassius
Longinus, ofCATius, of Comenius, ofERAS- mus, of the Marechal de Guebriant,
of Hippomanes, of the Day, of Madam Des Log es, of the three sisters Anne,
Margaret, ...
Pierre Bayle, Pierre Desmaizeaux, Anthelme Tricaud, 1739
4
A general dictionary: historical and critical: in which a ...
hi^^," of I ^HE Hippomanes signifies chiefly two things: I. A certain liquor that runs
""mTpiiny 1 from the privy parts of a mare who is eager to couple. II. A piece of
flefli »rang. ^ (an excrescence) growing on the foreheads of colts new foal'd.
Pierre Bayle, John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, 1741
5
The Manner Born: Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective
One can imagine that a foal might be born with either a folded amniotic fragment (
the equivalent of the human caul) or a true chorio—allantoic hippomanes
adhering to its head; presumably such an occurrence inspired the inaccurate
classical ...
6
Virgil: Georgics: Volume 2
He clearly suggests an etymological parallel (not in Aristotle) between horse-
madness and hippomanes. The connection is obvious, but it is strengthened by
Theocr. 2.48-9 'hippomanes is an Arcadian plant, for which all the foals and swift
...
Virgil, P. E. Easterling, Richard F. Thomas, 1988
7
The Gentleman's Magazine
He examined the to be regarded as a mere nti rations* j head very carefully, but
could find no it really exists, and that only in the hippomanes, nor the marks of
any fuck membranes which invelope the fœtus, thing ; the fcetus was separated ...
8
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Omnia Ex Editione Heyniana: Cum ...
АЬ Nostro Horatius Sat. l. {метит „оттяни: Aquarius annum. Et Columel. loquens
de anno, lu. 20. contristatur. Cerda. 280 Hina demum, Hippomanes] Scit lectuin
esse арт! Hesiodum, herbam esse quandam, quae hippomanes vocatur, quasi ...
133. : " Hippomanes, carmenque loquar, coctumque venenum, Privignoque
datum ? " And again, 615. : "ut avunculus ille Neronis, Cui totam tremuli frontem
Csesonia pulli Infudit." It was supposed that the dam swallowed this excrescence
...
10
Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The ...
Virgil, John MARTYN (Botanist.) Hinc deniuma Hippomanes vero quod nomine
which lhe shepherds properly call Hippomanes. T e Hippqmanes is. dicunt i
Hence a slimy juice at length , distils from their grolnsl the torrid zone. But this is a
very ...
Virgil, John MARTYN (Botanist.), 1827
