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In a poem commonly titled for this activity, the speaker describes Anaxo leading a procession of animals in a song whose first refrain addresses a wheel named after the “wryneck” bird. Alphesiboeus (“AL-fuh-sib-EE-uss”) responds to Damon with a song about this activity in Virgil’s eighth Eclogue (“ECK-log”), which was inspired by the second Idyll of Theocritus. (-5[1])Two people stealing materials for this activity, one of whom appears in Epodes 5 and 17, are driven off by a farting Priapus statue (10[1])in Horace’s (10[1]-5[1])eighth (10[1])Satire. Lucius disastrously spies on a practitioner of this activity with the help of the slave-girl (-5[1])Photis (-5[1])in Apuleius’s (“APP-yoo-LEE-uss’s”) The Golden Ass. (-5[2])Lucan’s Erichtho (“eric-thoh”) is an expert (10[1])in this skill (10[1])from Thessaly. A practitioner of this skill uses it to kill the giant Talos after butchering her brother Apsyrtus (10[3]-5[1])in the Argonautica. (10[2])For 10 points, name this skill that (10[1])Medea (10[1])masters (10[3])with the assistance of Hecate. (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

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