_Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead._--I have searched some time, but in
vain, in order to find out what the _lump_ or _love charm_, taken out of a
foal's forehead, was called. Virgil mentions it in _AEneid_, lib. iv. 515.,
where Dido is preparing her funeral pile, &c.:
"Quaeritur et nascentis equi de fronte revulsus,
Et matri praereptus, _amor_."
Tacitus also makes mention of it continually. I have no doubt but that
through your interesting and learned columns I shall obtain an answer. It
was not _philtrum_.