Re: his cure is worſe than the diſeaſe

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Paul, Hi Hans,


> On 29 Apr 2020, at 19:06, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> This quote is from:
> 
> George Gillespie. A Brotherly Examination of ſome paſſages of Mr. Colemans 
> late
> Sermon upon Iob 11.20. London: Robert Bostock (1645).
> 
> So even back then the phrase was already being used in its political (not
> medical) sense as part of a political controversy - which means in this 
> respect
> we're no better off now than our ancestors were in 1645.



> Le 29 avr. 2020 à 20:27, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> The phrase itself is translation of Latin aegrescit medendo, from Virgil, 
> Aeneid XII, 46, The combat between Aeneas and Turnus.
> 
> https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/5147/what-is-the-opposite-of-aegrescit-medendo


Thanks to both of you for your findings!