Note 050
From Chapter 25 of the Decline & Fall

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. Tacitus Annals ii. 69.

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