...st circuit from a kindled fire Rise aromatic odours: danewort burns, And juice distils from Syrian galbanum; Then mournful tamarisk, costum from the East, Strong panacea mixed with centaury From Thrace , and leaves of fennel feed the flames, And thapsus brought from Eryx: and they burn Larch, southern-wood and antlers of a deer Which lived afar. From these in densest fumes, Deadly to snakes, a p...