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Literature | Homer a Cure for the Ague It was an old superstition that if the fourth book of the Iliad was laid under the head of a patient suffering from quartan ague it would cure him at once. Serenus Sammonicus, preceptor of Gordian and a noted physician, vouchee for this remedy. "Mæoniæ Iliados quartum suppone timenti." - Præcepta de Medicina, 50. The subject of this book is as follows: While Agamemnon adjudges that Menelaos is the winner, and that the Trojans were bound tc yield, according to their compact, Pandaros draws his bow, wounds Menelaos, and the battle becomes general. The reason why this book was selected is because it contains the cure of Menelaos by Machaon, "a son of Æsculapius." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 4D 45 52 41 43 55 52 45 46 4F 52 54 48 45 41 47 55 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01001101 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000011 01010101 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000001 01000111 01010101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O M E R   A   C U R E   F O R   T H E   A G U E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 004D 0045 0052 0041 0043 0055 0052 0045 0046 004F 0052 0054 0048 0045 0041 0047 0055 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)424947395223523755523924049522544239235415539 |
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