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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

CHAPTER 11
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On the Nerbudda, fifty miles south-east of Jubbulpore.
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Of the supposed powers and dispositions of witches among the Romans we have horrible pictures in the 5th Ode of the 6th Book of Horace, and in the 6th Book of Lucan's _Pharsalia_.

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H.S.] The reference to Horace should be to the 5th Epode.

The passage in the _Pharsalia_, Book VI, lines 420-830, describes the proceedings of Thessalian witches.
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