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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Salpe

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20018

Blurb:

(before AD 79)

Pliny describes her as an obstetrix or midwife. Her name is Greek (it was the name of a fish, Athen. 7.321d-322a). All we have of her work is Pliny’s paraphrase of six remedies.

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