CHARM Copy link • CHARM 1. incantation, etc., carmen: canticum (the prescribed form): cantio (the uttered form, or utterance of the form): fascinatio: effascinatio (both of fascinating by the look and by words). To repeat a charm, incantare carmen. Charms, veneficia et cantiones: venenum (prepared drugs). To bring it about, as by a charm, that, etc., quodam quasi veneno perficere, ut, etc. Attraction, gratia: venustas (attractive beauty). Seductive charms, lenocinia: personal charms, venustas et pulchrirado corporis. The charms of nature, amoenitates naturae. Any thing has no charm for me, nihil voluptatis mihi aliquid affert. Any thing has a charm for me, inest in aliqua re stimulus, qui me ejus appetentem facit; studio alicujus rei teneor, or only teneor aliqua re; ad aliquid me fert naturalis irritatio; alicujus rei mihi innata dulcedo est (has a natural charm for me). 2. v. fascinare: effascinare (often with ablative: voce, lingua, voce atque lingua). To charm away anything, aliqind carminibus levare (e.g., a disease: after Plaut., Mil., 4, 6, 57). To charm (= restrain by a charm), aliquid carminibus compescere (e.g., ignes, Ov.). Subdue by pleasure, etc., capere: rapere: delenire. A girl whose beauty charms, puella, cujus forma rapit (Propertius). [Vid. DELIGHT, v.] To summon by incantations, adjurare (late, Lactantius): carminibus elicere (e.g., infernas umbras, Tac.).