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(obsolete) An ancient love philter obtained from a mare or foal in heat. quotations
Let Circe and Medea bring the lees / Of some foul cup! Let Thessaly prepare / Its direst poison! Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!
1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus, translation of original by Tibullus