In Walter Map's twelfth century work titled De nugis curialium, 'Lucilia' is the name of a woman who murders her husband by giving him a potion that causes him to go insane.
Illa sponte miscuit aconiton, hec decepta furorem propinauit pro amoris poculo.
Variis et diuersis incedunt semitis femine; quibuscunque anfractibus errent, quantiscunque deuient inuiis, unicus est exitus, unica omnium viarum suarum meta, unicum caput et conuentus omnium diuersitatum suarum, malicia.
Exemplum harum experimentum cape, quod audax est ad omnia queccunque amat vel odit femina, et artificiosa nocere cum vult, quod est semper; et frequenter cum iuuare parat obest, unde fit ut noceat et nolens.
Lucia likerous loved her husband so That for he should always upon her think, She have him such a manner love-drink That he was dead ere it were by the morrow...[15] In other versions of the same story, 'Lucilia' appears in place of 'Lucia'.
[17] He wrote:[Lucretius] lived forty-four years, and at last, driven mad by the noxious potion of an evil woman, he resolved to take his own life by hanging himself or else, as others think, he fell on his sword.
[17] He wrote (in Latin):Morbi vi, iit fit, consiimtiin esse, sed, ut ejus obitiim faciant, scribunt, eum sibi ipsum manus attulisse: aliitaedio vitae, quod patriara suam ambitionc, avaritia, luxuria, discordia, etsimilibus civitatuin, qiiap diu floruerunt, et jam senescunt, morbis aestuare atque afflictari videret: alii aegritudine animi, quod memmii sui, qui in exilium pulsus erat, tristem casum aequo animo ferre non posset: alii iurore percitum, in quem Lucilia, sive uxor sive amica, amatorio poculo porrecto, eum imprudens adegerat, cum ab eo amari, non ei necem inferre, aut bonam mentem adimere, vallet.
Quoniam autem de numero libronim a nostro poeta scriptorum nonnulli dubitarunt, et, levissiniis argumentis adducti, plures, quam sex, ab eo scriptos esse existimarunt, videturhic error minuendus, atque haec dubitatio tollenda.
[1] Gifanius wrote:According to Eusebius, [Lucretius] died by his own hands, in the forty-fourth year of his age, being dementated by a philtre, which either his mistress, or his wife, Lucilia, for so some call her, though without authority, in a fit of jealousy.
[1] He wrote:They claim this happened to him for love of a boy, whom for his brightness and extraordinary beauty [Lucretius] called Astericon.
[24] He wrote:She Brook'd it not; but wrathful, petulant, Dreaming some rival, sought and found a witch Who'd brew'd the philtre which had power, they said, To lead an errant passion home again.