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In the combat of the cestus, Shaw, the lifeguardsman, vanquishes the Prince of Orange, and obtains a bull as a prize. In the horse-race, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Uxbridge ride against each other; the Duke is victorious, and is rewarded with twelve opera-girls. On the last day of the festivities, a splendid dance takes place, at which all the heroes attend.
They fight first in the Greek fashion, with the cestus; afterwards they put on armor, and try sword and shield. 'He is a proper man, this Lydon; and the women, I am sure, are on his side. 'So are not the experienced betters; Clodius offers three to one against him!
Here the moon, whose hue is golden, not silvern, has a regular dawn before rising, and an afterglow to her setting; and Venus casts a broad cestus of glimmering light upon the purple sea. The limit of sight for terrestrial objects under the most favourable conditions does not exceed 210 miles.
"You should be very welcome," she said; "but I am quite safe, thank you. I need not trouble you." "But suppose the cabman bullies you for double fare," persisted Cashel. "I have business up in Finchley; and your place is right in any way there. Upon my soul I have," he added, suspecting that she doubted him. "I go every Tuesday evening to the St. John's Wood Cestus Club."
It was remarked by the ancients that the Pentathlete, who divided his attention between several exercises, though he could not vie with a boxer in the use of the cestus, or with one who had confined his attention to running in the contest of the stadium, yet enjoyed far greater general vigour and health than either. It is the same with the mind.
Habited in a single linen garment, confined round the slender waist with a cestus of flowers, and with light slippers upon her feet, but with a diadem of roses on her head, and with wreaths round her bare arms, and her equally bare ankles, she appeared to be the goddess of that island the genius of that charming clime of fruits, and verdure, and crystal streams, and flowers.
Schiller finds in the Cestus of Venus an everlasting aesthetic truth as to the nature of all Beauty; curious: but he is careful not to insinuate that the old Greek Mythists had any notion of lecturing about the "Philosophy of Criticism"! On the whole, we must leave those boundless regions. Cannot we conceive that Odin was a reality?
The same remark applies to the Hebrew women, who, during the nomadic period of their history, had been accustomed to wear no night-chemises at all, but slept quite naked, or, at the utmost, with a cestus or zone: by way of bed-clothes, however, it must be observed, that they swathed their person in the folds of a robe or shawl.
For eight days there should be feasting, for which Acestes had generously provided two oxen for each ship; and on the ninth day he would give prizes to be contested in the foot-race, in shooting with the bow, and in boxing with the cestus.
Morrissey, or any other "shoulder-hitter," would hardly need more than a few rounds to settle his opponent, if his sinewy arm were garnished with the cestus. We read that the late contest for the "American belt," though short, was unusually fierce, and afforded intense delight to the spectators, in proportion, probably, to its ferocity.
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