Note 050

Limus uc hic durescit, et haec ut cera liquescit
Uno eodemque igni ____
Virgil. Bucolic. viii. 80.

Devovet absentes, simulacraque cerea figit.
Ovid. in Epist. Hypsil. ad Jason. 91 [Ep. vi.].

Such vain incantations could affect the mind, and increase the disease, of Germanicus. Tacit. Annal. ii. 69.


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