[508] We have already had the use of the effigy in incantations for restoring love E. 8. 75. Its use in getting rid of the passion has been adverted to on v. 496. ‘Toro,’ the “lectus iugalis,” v. 496. ‘Haud ignara futuri’ seems to mean that though her arrangements might seem to her sister to have one object, they were really devised with another. The words are perhaps from Hor. 1 S. 1. 35.
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