"Nunc scio quid sit Amor," &c.
The application by Johnson seems to be so plain as to need no explanation.
F. B—w.
Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead (Vol. viii., p. 292.).—Your correspondent H. P. will find the love charm, consisting of a fig-shaped excrescence on a foal's forehead, and called Hippomanes, alluded to by Juvenal, Sat. VI. 133.:
"Hippomanes, carmenque loquar, coctumque venenum,
Privignoque datum?"
And again, 615.:
"ut avunculus ille Neronis,
Cui totam tremuli frontem Cæsonia pulli
Infudit."