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  • Galene, did you see what Eris did yesterday at the Thessalian banquet, because she had not had an invitation?

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • They haue regard also to theyr mylke, their meate, theyr bathes, & their mouinges, by whyche thynges the phisicions in many bookes, and inespeciall Galene hath taught that the chyldren get good healthe of theyr bodye: neyther do they differ thys diligẽce vnto the seuenth or tenth yere, but euẽ assone as the chylde commeth oute of the mothers wombe, they take greate charge of thys.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Galene became known that of mithridatium, which also differed in con - as theriac.

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  • Some also used by Galen to treat quartan fever (malaria), will counter all three, and Galen claimed that to which was prevalent in the Pontine Marshes near this class belong mithridatium and galene.

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  • Details of various theriacs, including taining no Lemnian earth, copper or bitumen and mithridatium and galene, were given in Galen's 14 fewer herbal ingredients.

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  • 79 Many of the names which follow express various qualities or aspects of the sea: thus Galene is ‘Calm’, Cymothoe is the ‘Wave-swift’,

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

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