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tetraphar·ma·cum
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Tetrapharmacumnoun
a combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment
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Tetrapharmacum
Latin tetrapharmacum, Greek tetrapharmakos - the "fourfold drug" was a pharmaceutical compound known in ancient Greek pharmacology, a mixture of wax, pine resin, pitch and animal fat, most often pork fat. The word tetrapharmakos has been used metaphorically by Epicurus and his disciples to refer to the four remedies for healing the soul. Apparently named after this unprepossessing concoction, tetrafarmacum was a complicated and expensive dish in Roman Imperial cuisine. It contained sow's udder, pheasant, wild boar and ham in pastry. The only surviving source of information on the tetrafarmacum is the Augustan History, which mentions it three times, a hoax of the late 4th century purporting to be a history from the late 3rd century. All three mentions are credited to the now-lost biography of Hadrian by Marius Maximus. According to this source, the Caesar Lucius Aelius invented the dish; his senior colleague, the Emperor Hadrian, liked it; a later emperor, Alexander Severus, liked it too.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tetrapharmacum in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tetrapharmacum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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