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Antonius Musa (Greek ) was a Greek botanist and the Roman Emperor Augustus's physician; Antonius was a freedman who received freeborn status along with other honours. In the year 23 BC, when Augustus was seriously ill, Musa cured the illness with cold compresses and became immediately famous. ''Musa'', the plant group which includes the banana, the plantain and numerous other species, was apparently named after him.〔Liberty Hyde Bailey, ''The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture''. 1916. (pp. 2076–9 )〕 However, ''Musa'' may be a Latinization the Arabic ''mauz'' (موز) name for the fruit. ''Mauz'' meaning ''Musa'' is discussed the 11th century Arabic encyclopedia ''The Canon of Medicine'', which was translated to Latin in medieval times and well known in Europe.〔Arabic ''Mauz'' meaning ''Musa'' or banana is in the medieval Arabic medical encyclopedia by Avicenna, which is online at (Avicenna: Book Two ). See also "Musa" at (Dictionary.Reference.com ). See also ''Musacées'' in (''Dictionnaire Étymologique Des Mots Français D'Origine Orientale'' ), by L. Marcel Devic (year 1876).〕 Musa's brother was Euphorbus, physician to king Juba II of Numidia, after whom the plant ''Euphorbia'', which has given its name to a scientific genus, was originally named. A short medical treatise called ''De herba vettonica'' and speaking of the properties of this herb has been transmitted under his name, but is thought instead to have been written in the 4th century. It seems to have been a source for the Roman medical writer Theodorus Priscianus.〔D. R. Langslow, ''Medical Latin in the Roman Empire'', Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 67-68〕 According to Francis Atterbury, the character Iapis in Virgil's Aeneid represents Musa while Aeneas represents Augustus. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonius Musa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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