Horace Epode 5. Canidia's love potion

This video is a performance of Horace’s Epode 5, about witches (led by Canidia) brewing a love potion for her lover Varus. The translation is by David Schwei, based on the Latin text in Wickham, Edward and H. W. Garrod 1901. Q. Horati Flacci Opera, Oxford Classical Texts (Oxford University Press: Oxford). The translation was aided by the commentaries, notes, texts, and translations in: Garrison, Daniel H. 1989 Horace: Epodes and Odes: A New Annotated Latin Edition, Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture (University of Oklahoma Press: Norman). Ogden, Daniel. 2002. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook (Oxford University Press, Oxford). Shorey, Paul and Gordon J. Laing 1919. Horace: Odes and Epodes (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh).