145), 'I know by what spell the Thessalian
sorceress
snatches away the
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.
