Explore "The Sorceries of Canidia. from Horace" by George Borrow on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
(Canidia and other witches, having enticed a boy of high birth into some / secret cell, proceed to bury him in the earth, up to the chin; in order / that, when he has perished with hunger in that situation, his liver etc. / may serve as ingredients for a draught, by administering which Canidia / purposes to regain the affection of Varus, who has deserted her. The poem / commences with the entreaties of the boy, and concludes with the / imprecations which he utters when about to be abandoned to famine and / inhumation.)
"Father of Gods, who rul'st the sky, / The earth and all the heavenly race!