At si Virgilium legisses, profecto scisses alia quaeri ad hanc rem solere; ille enim, quantum scio, enumerat vittas mollis et verbenas pinguis et tura mascula et licia discolora, praeterea laurum fragilem, limum durabilem, ceram liquabilem, nec minus quae iam in opere serio scripsit: Falcibus et messae ad lunam quaeruntur aenis pubentes herbae nigri cum lacte veneni.
whereas if you had read Virgil, you would certainly have known that the things usually required for this purpose are different. For as far as I know he lists soft wreaths of wool, leafy boughs, balls of incense, threads of different colors, and moreover laurel leaves that crackle, mud that hardens, wax that softens, all of which he included, this time in a serious poem: And, reaped with brazen sickles beneath the moon, Herbs are sought, rich with juice of black poison;
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