Lucilia

Lucilia is the wife of the Roman philosopher Lucretius and is mentioned in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the The Wife of Bath's Prologue. According to legend, in order to make her husband love only her, Lucilia prepared an aphrodisiac which killed him.

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