RE: Tibullus I.2.41-42
Still, your husband will not believe this, just as
The honest-speaking witch promised me with her magical aid.
For Augustan Literature today we read Tibullus I.1-3. In the second poem from his first book of elegies, Tibullus speaks of having secured the aid of a sorceress, who has cast a spell to make Tibullus' love Delia's husband (for want of a better term) unable to believe an affair is going on between those two.
He will be able to believe nothing from anyone about us,
not even himself, if he himself should see us in the soft bed.
Still, keep away from others: for he will perceive
everything else: Only me will he not perceive. (I.2.55-58)
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