in *Antiquity*, was applied to a love charm or incantation used to gain the affection of a person beloved. It was formed by tying knots, and is thus described by Virgil in his eighth Eclogue:

> Nec te tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores: > Nec te, Amarylli, modo; et, Veneris, die, vincula neco.