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Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts
An anonymous reader writes with good news for people looking for an old cure for an old problem. Trying to ease a bad hangover? Wearing a necklace made from the leaves of a shrub called Alexandrian laurel would do the job, according to a newly translated Egyptian papyrus. The "drunken headache cure" appears in a 1,900-year-old text written in Greek and was discovered during the ongoing effort to translate more than half a million scraps of papyrus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Housed at Oxford University's Sackler Library, the enormous collection of texts contains lost gospels, works by Sophocles and other Greek authors, public and personal records and medical treatises dating from the first century AD to the sixth century A.D.
Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Why they all went outside to collect leaves of the Alexandrian laurel bush of course.
Any baldness cures in there?
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The next thing to do, of course, is to test the claim and see if it's true or not. I'm sure that you'll find lots of college students who are willing to give themselves hangovers in the name of science, especially if they're going to be paid for it.
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Lost Gospels, Sophocles, and 1,800 other pages and someone posts about the hangover cure.
I guess we are living a new dark ages.
FUCK you and your god damned bullshit.
Fuck you culture warrior identity politics fuckface asshole prick.
BC/AD is part of the fucking culture ass grabbing fuck puke.
FUCK YOU, history changer Goebbels re-writer.
I vote for renaming them BFC ("Before Fucking Christ") and AFD ("Anno Fucking Domini").
Sometimes it seems like militant atheists
Please get the terms right, the name of the religion is not militant atheism but evangelical atheism.
Whether stringing its leaves and wearing the strand around the neck had any effect to relieve headaches in alcohol victims isnâ(TM)t known.
This doesn't seem like it would have been that difficult to test, but there is no indication that anyone who read it has done so yet.
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What I don't like about BC/AD is that one is English and one is Latin. Pick one, not some ugly mixture! The mixture also means that the placement of the abbreviation is either inconsistent (traditional usage) or grammatically incorrect (getting more common). The grammatically correct placement is to put BC after the date, but AD before the date:
330 BC vs. AD 1983
You could write "1983 AD", but then you are not even being correctly traditional, at which point you might as well just give up and use the newer English abbreviations, which always go at the end.
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All the folks who know ancient Greek have better things to do? Like what?
Wanking off to the plays of Aristophanes probably. I for one collect jokes. Here's one:
If Euripides his trousers, then Eumenides his trousers
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No, it's if Euripides trousers, then Eumenides trousers.
The "des" ending is pronounced "dese" as in "these".
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
In Latin aCn (ante Christum natum) is written for BC; anno Domini is one Latin way of expressing what we mean by AD, but often I've seen it written as anno Salutis (in the year of Salvation), and there are countless variations. Sometimes, especially in texts referring to Greek and Hebrew affairs, you find a different system, aM or anno Mundi, but in general the aD system is so prevalent that variation is desirable (Latin loves variety), hence anno Salutis and its friends.
anno Mundi (year of the world) is used in the Jewish calendar. anno Domini translates to "year of the Lord". Much of the ancient world used a system of "the Xth year of the reign of Y"