[Sca-cooks] Galen on Food and Diet?

[johnna holloway]

It was generally accorded to be pretty good.
Not having an original text to compare it with,
I can't really say if he is right on or wrong.
He is making a disnction here between these apricots.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>
> Ok, I finally started reading Galen: On Food and Diet (translation by Mark
> Grant).  Of course, I started in the middle, with the book 'on the
> properties of foods, book 2' and I really am uncomfortable with the
> quality of the translation. (For instance, Galen keeps referring to the
> autumn fruits in terms translated as 'apples, pears, peaches...' but
> there's no section labelled peaches, but there ARE 2 section labels
> translated as apricots...)
>
> Has anyone else looked at this translation and have an opinion about this?
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net