The Incantation of Circe

...arisen through your power, you who provide a continuous succession to living beings, you the universal multiplier of all pleasures and joys, you the penetrator of all inaccessible and arduous heights, you the powerful triumpher over all gods. Be present, Paphian goddess, Cyprian, Erycina, Calydonian, Samian, Idalian, Gnidian, Cytherean, and Capitoline These epithets refer to the many regional cult centers where Venus was worshipped, from Cyprus and Paphos to the Capitoline Hill in Rome..

Turn toward me, Mercury, you who are called Hermes, and Stilbon original: "Stilbon." A Greek name for the planet Mercury meaning "The Gleaming One.", son of Maia, and the noble grandson of Atlas. Compel, at my request, your hoopoes, bees, nightingales, bee-eaters, wrens original: "orchilos.", jackdaws, small herons, widgeons original: "penelopes," a type of duck., nightingales original: "philomelas.", and your other birds. Likewise leopards original: "paros," likely a shorthand for pardos., panthers, greenfinches original: "ligurinos." While usually a bird, it appears here in a list of land animals, perhaps referring to a specific small beast or reflecting a categorisation error in the source., hedgehogs, weasels, mules, and others of that kind. The plover original: "Trochilum.", the monkfish original: "ſquatinā.", the crab, the moray eel, the stingray, along with the rest of the same species.

Mercury, bearer of the caduceus The herald’s staff entwined with two snakes, Mercury's primary symbol of office., wearer of the traveler’s hat original: "galerate," referring to the petasos, the winged hat of the messenger god., wing-bearer, winged-footed, young man, most beautiful, virtuous, strenuous, tireless, agile, swift, diligent, adaptable, wise, scribe, painter, singer, prophet, inventive one, debater, counter, geometer, astronomer, divine. Penetrator of hidden things, elucidator of secrets, unknotter of enigmas, interpreter of the gods, most eloquent messenger, greatest reasoner, notary of the sun, conciliator of those above and those below, most fertile in both sexes—male to males, female to females This refers to the "hermaphroditic" or dual nature of Mercury/Hermes as a mediator who transcends boundaries.—judge of the divine powers, inventor of the lyre original: "cytharæ.", most capable in all arts. Be present, Arcadian, Royal, Memphite, Egyptian, Athenian, Palladian, Olympian.