Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris(116 words)
[German version]
Anonymous Latin poem, dated between the end of the 4th and beginning of the 6th cent. AD, and dedicated to a Symmachus, perhaps the father-in-law of Boethius; it is a skilfully formed and clearly structured didactic poem ( Didactic poetry) in 208 hexameters about weights and measures, the procedure for ascertaining the specific weight of fluids as well as the relative proportions of metals, especially of gold-silver alloys.
Gruber, Joachim (Munich)
Bibliography
Editions:
1 F. Hultsch, Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae 2, 1866, 88-98
2 PLM 5, 71-82.
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Gruber, Joachim (Munich),
“Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e227220>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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