145), 'I know by what spell the Thessalian
sorceress
snatches away the
lunar beam.
lunar beam.
Byron
.
.
.
We may adduce Ovid (_Amor.
_, bk.
ii.
, El.
, i.
23),
who says, 'Charmers draw down the horns of the blood-red moon,'. . . Here
it is to be observed that in the opinion of simple-minded persons, the
moon could be actually drawn down from heaven. So Aristophanes says
(_Clouds_, lines 739, 740), 'If I should purchase a Thessalian witch,
and draw down the moon by night;' and Claudian (_In Ruffin. _, bk. i.
145), 'I know by what spell the Thessalian sorceress snatches away the
lunar beam. '"--_Magic Incantations_, by Christianus Pazig (circ. 1700),
edited by Edmund Goldsmid, F. R. H. S. , F. S. A. (Scot. ), 1886, pp. 30, 31.
See, too, Virgil, _Eclogues_, viii. 69, "Carmina vel coelo possunt de
ducere Lunam. "]
[142] {291}["Tubal-Cain [the seventh in descent from Cain] was an
instructor of every artificer of brass and iron" (_Gen. _ iv.
who says, 'Charmers draw down the horns of the blood-red moon,'. . . Here
it is to be observed that in the opinion of simple-minded persons, the
moon could be actually drawn down from heaven. So Aristophanes says
(_Clouds_, lines 739, 740), 'If I should purchase a Thessalian witch,
and draw down the moon by night;' and Claudian (_In Ruffin. _, bk. i.
145), 'I know by what spell the Thessalian sorceress snatches away the
lunar beam. '"--_Magic Incantations_, by Christianus Pazig (circ. 1700),
edited by Edmund Goldsmid, F. R. H. S. , F. S. A. (Scot. ), 1886, pp. 30, 31.
See, too, Virgil, _Eclogues_, viii. 69, "Carmina vel coelo possunt de
ducere Lunam. "]
[142] {291}["Tubal-Cain [the seventh in descent from Cain] was an
instructor of every artificer of brass and iron" (_Gen. _ iv.