@article {505046,
	title = {Translation, repurposing, and misunderstanding from Egypt to Rome to Ravenna : φορεῖον - phorium - furibum},
	journal = {Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi (Bulletin Du Cange)},
	volume = {74},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016},
	pages = {37-54},
	abstract = {This article examines the word furibum, a medical hapax legomenon in the Vita Barbatiani (B.H.L. 972). Furibum has been enshrined in several dictionaries of medieval Latin as a sort of {\guillemotleft}\&nbsp;litter\&nbsp;{\guillemotright} for the sick. This article argues that furibum is a transmission error and not a genuine Latin word. The probably tenth-century Vita Barbatiani was modeled on the Latin Miracles of Cyrus and John (B.H.L. 2080), a translation of Sophronios of Jerusalem{\textquoteright}s Greek Miracles of Cyrus and John (B.H.G. 477-479i). Furibum likely arose as a misreading of phorium, the Latin Miracles{\textquoteright} Latinization of Sophronios{\textquoteright} φορεῖον ({\guillemotleft}\&nbsp;litter\&nbsp;{\guillemotright}). Furibum should be removed from the dictionaries, but the history of this error sheds light on the entanglements of cultural transmission across centuries, languages, and regions.},
	author = {Shane Bobrycki}
}
