
The Romans believed that the magical power of prayers was enhanced if they were uttered with a loud voice.Hence a saying attributed to
Seneca:
"So speak to God as
though all men heard your prayers."
Of great repute among the
healing-spells of antiquity was the cabalistic word „Abracadabra“, which occurs
first in a medical treatise entitled "Præcepta de Medicina," by the
Roman writer Quintus Serenus Samonicus,...