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Virgil says, that, if to this incantation by words certain herbs are joined, the fascination works with more terrible effect: "Pocula si quando saevae infecere novercae, Miscueruntque herbas et non irmoxia verba, Auxilium venit, ac membris agit atra venena."
Nevertheless, Suetonius tells us he wrote a lyric poem and Greek imitations of Euphorion, Rhianus, and Parthenius; but it was the minute questions of mythology that chiefly attracted him, points of useless erudition like those derided by Juvenal: "Nutricem Anchisae, nomen patriamque novercae Anchemoli, dicat quot Acestes vixerit annos, Quot Siculus Phrygibus vini donaverit urnas."
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