The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35227   Message #479885
Posted By: flattop
09-Jun-01 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Blowing in the wind...
Subject: RE: BS: Blowing in the wind...
Ain't it funny how our ol' flat earth spins round. Seems like only yesterday Roman Doctor Oribasios was recommending a diet of peas and broad beans to Emperor Julian to increase the emperor's flatulance and thereby make him more amorous. Well, it might have been about 350AD.

www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/ter/grst/People/Oribasius.htm