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. And finally “the noble kerving and the portreitures” of the Temples of Venus, Mars, and Diana, in Chaucer’s “Knightes Tale”:⁠—

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