Tearing moon down from heaven (1)

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SAA 16 63.22’-6’:
Moreover, the messengers whom the king, my lord, sends to Guzana - who hears (all) the slighting remarks that Tarṣî and his wife make (about them)? Zazâ, the wife of Tarṣî, and her sons should not be kept alive. O king, my lord! The priest is a brother-in-law of Tarṣî. Their wifes bring down the moon from the sky!

Plato, Gorgias 513a:
… the Thessalian witches who draw down the moon from heaven.

Lucan, Pharsalia 499-506 (?):
Witches have introduced the art of dragging the stars from the sky; and know how to turn the Moon dim and muddy-coloured, as though she were being eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow - after which they pull her close to them and torture her until she secretes poisonous foam on the plants growing underneath.

Horace, Epodes 5.45-46:
(The Thessalian woman) who, using the Thessalian incantations, tears the stars and the Moon from the sky.

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Horace, Epodes 5.45-46
Lucan, Pharsalia 499-506 (?)
Plato, Gorgias 513a
SAA 16 63.22’-6’

Amar Annus

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