A Woman's Imprecation On Her Unfaithful Lover
grow.
Unman for me to-day this man that he may wear the horn of
hair.
2. Make him a eunuch with a horn, set thou the crest upon his-
head.
Let Indra with two pressing-stones deprive him of his manly
strength.
3. I have unmanned thee, eunuch! yea, impotent! made thee-
impotent, and robbed thee, weakling! of thy strength.
Upon his head we set the horn, we set the branching ornament.
4. Duas tuas venas, a Diis factas, in quibus stat vigor virilis,
paxillo ligneo in testiculis ob istam mulierem tibi findo.
5. Ut mulieres mattam (tegetem) facturae arundinem lapide findunt,
sic fascinum tuum cum testiculis ob istam mulierem findo.