Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin.
So, too, the power of the spell is attested by Propertius (iv. 4. 51):
O! utinam magicae nossem cantamina Musae,
and Ovid (Her. vi. 83):
Nec facie meritisve placet, sed carmina novit,
and Seneca (Herc. Oet. 464):
Flectemus illum, carmina invenient iter,
and Lucan (vi. 452):
Carmine Thessalidum dura in praecordia fluxit Non fatis addictus amor.
and Tibullus (i. 8. 23):