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herpes

herpes · m

A cutaneous eruption that creeps and spreads

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

herpes — Lewis & Short

herpes, ētis, m., = e(/rphs.

I A cutaneous eruption that creeps and spreads, Plin. 26, 14, 87, § 145; and perh. Lucil. ap. Non. 117, 22, where others read herpestica (in Cels. 5, 28, 3, written as Greek).—

II Herpes quoque animal a Graecis vocatur, quo praecipue sanantur quaecumque serpunt, Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 116.

In the wild

Herpes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.13.p2
herpete Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.30.p42

Where it came from

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