Clericus (A.).
Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead.—I have searched some time, but in vain, in order to find out what the lump or love charm, taken out of a foal's forehead, was called. Virgil mentions it in Æneid, lib. iv. 515., where Dido is preparing her funeral pile, &c.:
"Quæritur et nascentis equi de fronte revulsus,
Et matri præreptus, amor."
Tacitus also makes mention of it continually. I have no doubt but that through your interesting and learned columns I shall obtain an answer. It was not philtrum.
H. P.
A Scrape.—What is the origin of the expression "Getting into a scrape?"
Y. B. N. J.
"Plus occidit Gula," &c.—Can any of your correspondents direct me where the following passage is to be found?—
"Plus occidit gula, quam gladius."