Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum
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Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum. A copy of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs written under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The author is apparently the French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire ...