A case of eye disease (lippitudo) on the Roman frontier in Britain
β Scribed by Anthony R. Birley
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 548 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-4486
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β¦ Synopsis
A newly excavated Roman report, written in ink on wood, on the strength of the First Cohort of Tungrians at Vindolanda in northern Britain, registers 31 men unfit, 15 as sick, 6 as wounded, the remainder, 10, with eye-disease, 'lippientes'. The paper also comments on the prevalence of eye-disease in antiquity and some of the suggested causes thereof.
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