Prayer to Carmenta
CarmentaA healing prayer of the modern Carmentalia order; for the general explanation see carmenta-001.
The first sentence is Tibullus verbatim. Huc ades et tenerae morbos expelle puellae opens the elegy on the sick Sulpicia (apollo-025); only there it is Phoebus who is called, and here Carmentis has been substituted. A genuine line has been taken, the divine name replaced, and the result passed off as an ancient prayer.
This is no longer substitution within a transferable formula, as in carmenta-002, but the appropriation of another poet's verse. The difference matters: the Romans did indeed move formulae from god to god, but not lines of Tibullus.
The card's English text further expands the whole Tibullan passage — the wasting, the disfiguring colour, the river carrying the trouble out to sea — although there is no Latin here for any of it.