Re: VMs: Similar Plant VMS and The Herbal of Dioscorides Pedanius

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> > A mandrake would be labeled, one would assume,
> > mandragora or something like that.
>
> That's what it seems to say in Greek (left and right of the stem).

How embarassing.  So it does.  I have to admit I hadn't tried to make any
sense of the chicken tracks here, but with your prodding it does seem to
say m<squiggle>ndra (right) and go(u?)ra (left) plus some other stuff I
can't makes anything of - ? ? l u ? a.  (And now I see, duh, that clicking
on a part of the image magnifies it.)  I guess we can be glad there's no
sound.  I've studied Greek, but only a very little and long ago, and it
was very tame Greek, nicely printed.  Well, most of it, and the wild part
was of a different vintage had been predigested.

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