id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_129 horace-works_129 .txt text/plain 602 24 74 Now one may live in the Esquiliae,[ since it is made] a healthy place; and walk upon an open terrace, where lately the melancholy passengers beheld the ground frightful with white bones; though both the thieves and wild beasts accustomed to infest this place, do not occasion me so much care and trouble, as do[ these hags], that turn people 's minds by their incantations and drugs. These I can not by any means destroy nor hinder, but that they will gather bones and noxious herbs, as soon as the fleeting moon has shown her beauteous face. in what manner, speaking alternately with Sagana, the ghosts uttered dismal and piercing shrieks; and how by stealth they laid in the earth a wolf 's beard, with the teeth of a spotted snake; and how a great blaze flamed forth from the waxen image? ./cache/horace-works_129.txt ./txt/horace-works_129.txt