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Lucian, Menippus, Or Descent Into Hades, 7

nan Taking me under his charge, he commenced with a new moon, and brought me down for twenty nine successive mornings to the Euphrates, where he bathed me, apostrophizing the rising sun in a long formula, of which I never caught much; he gabbled indistinctly, like bad heralds at the Games; but he appeared to be invoking spirits. This charm completed, he spat thrice upon my face, and I went home, not letting my eyes meet those of anyone we passed. Our food was nuts and acorns, our drink milk and hydromel and water from the Choaspes, and we slept out of doors on the grass. When he thought me sufficiently prepared, he took me at midnight to the Tigris, purified and rubbed me over, sanctified me with torches and squills and other things, muttering the charm aforesaid, then made a magic circle round me to protect me from ghosts, and finally led me home backwards just as I was; it was now time to arrange our voyage.

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magic birth of term	Bremmer (2008) 246
magoi,and murmuring	Bremmer (2008) 246
magoi	Bremmer (2008) 246
voces magicae'	Bremmer (2008) 246