There danced youths and alluring virgins, holding each other’s hands at the wrist. These wore fine linen robes, but those were dressed in well-woven tunics, shining as with oil; these also had beautiful garlands, and those wore golden swords, hanging from silver belts. Sometimes, with skilful feet, they nimbly bounded round; as when a potter, sitting, shall make trial of a wheel fitted to his hands, whether it will run: and at other times again they ran back to their places through one another. But a great crowd surrounded the pleasing dance, amusing themselves; and among them two tumblers, beginning their songs, spun round through the midst. “But in it he also formed the vast strength of the river Oceanus, near the last border of the well-formed shield.” See also Virgil’s description of the Shield of Aeneas, Aeneid , VIII , and of the representations on the walls of the Temple of Juno at Carthage, Aeneid , I . Also the description of the Temple of Mars, in Statius, Thebaid , VII , and that of the tomb of the Persian queen in the Alexandreis of Philip Gualtier, noticed in Mr. Sumner’s article, Atlantic Monthly , XVI 754.