10-11-2025, 07:13 PM
(10-11-2025, 03:01 PM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(10-11-2025, 02:04 PM)Kaybo wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Ok, but then it was no secret at all? Do you looked at the full text to find more similarities? Or is that a general theme that other maybe used too and we maybe have to find a topic that need to kept secret?
It seems that there were also poems (in hexameters) that were very critical of physicians (see the addendum in the last post). It would certainly be a serious matter to potentially fall out with one's own guild. However, I do not know how common or widespread poems of this kind were.
As far as hexameters themselves are concerned, at first glance the lines in the VMS often seem too long to me ( too many words ). However, I would not rely on the spaces set.
Do you think it must be hexameters. I just thought, ok herbal, medical stuff is written as poetry... so maybe line as a functional unit is not very uncommon in a lot of text at that time?
