The mysterious efficacy attributed to a love-philtre is more in accordance with vulgar credulity than with experience.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The well-known statement of Jerome is to this effect,-'The poet Lucretius was born in the year 94 B.C. He became mad from the administration of a love-philtre, and after composing, in his lucid intervals, several books which were afterwards corrected by Cicero, he died by his own hand in his forty-fourth year.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Miss Blandy states that, apropos to her father's unpropitious attitude, her lover "acquainted her of the great skill of the famous Mrs. Morgan," a cunning woman known to him in Scotland, from whom he had received a certain powder, "which she called love-powders"-being, as appears, the Scottish equivalent to the poculum amatorium or love philtre of the Romans.
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William