Elegia VIII.[169]
Execratur lenam quæ puellam suam meretricis arte instituebat.
There is—whoe'er will know a bawd aright,
Give ear—there is an old trot Dipsas hight.[170]
Her name comes from the thing: she being wise,[171]
Sees not the morn on rosy horses rise,
She magic arts and Thessal charms doth know,
And makes large streams back to their fountains flow;
She knows with grass, with threads on wrung[172] wheels spun,
And what with mares' rank humour[173] may be done.