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Updated: June 4, 2025
"When you get my writing-table out of this corner, my pretty dears, I'd thank you to let me know it." Thus spake I in my blindness, fool that I was. Jupiter might as soon keep awake, when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.
The lovely creature was clothed in a sky-blue riding-habit with embroidered button-holes, and a green hat and feather, with suitable decorations. She had a delicate twisted cane-whip in her hand, a nosegay in her bosom, and a purple cestus round her waist. There were beside two gentlemen in the coach, genteelly dressed; and they all appeared to know each other.
"With teaching, what a man for the arena! What a runner! Ye gods! what an arm for the sword or the cestus! Stay!" he said aloud. Ben-Hur stopped, and the tribune went to him. "If thou wert free, what wouldst thou do?" "The noble Arrius mocks me!" Judah said, with trembling lips. "No; by the gods, no!" "Then I will answer gladly. I would give myself to duty the first of life. I would know no other.
He found that animals of the same class of the animal kingdom showed very similar temperature values, those from the Amphibia examined being 38.5° C., Fishes 39°, Reptilia 45°, and various Molluscs 46°. Also in the case of Pelagic animals he showed a relation between death temperature and the quantity of solid constituents of the body, Cestus having lowest death temperature and least amount of solids in its body.
All were charmed with her beauty, and each one demanded her for his wife. Jupiter gave her to Vulcan, in gratitude for the service he had rendered in forging thunderbolts. So the most beautiful of the goddesses became the wife of the most ill-favored of gods. Venus possessed an embroidered girdle called Cestus, which had the power of inspiring love.
Plut. in Alex. When one of the combatants with the cestus killed his antagonist by running the ends of his fingers through his ribs, he was ignominiously expelled the stadium. The cestus itself made of thongs of leather, was evidently meant not to increase the severity of the blow, but for the prevention of foul play by the antagonists laying hold of each other, or using the open hand.
Now the Angry man is not insidious, nor is Anger, but quite open: but Lust is: as they say of Venus, "Cyprus-born Goddess, weaver of deceits" Or Homer of the girdle called the Cestus, "Persuasiveness cheating e'en the subtlest mind."
'Well, man, what is your weapon? said Clodius, tablet in hand. 'We are to fight first with the cestus; afterwards, if both survive, with swords, returned Tetraides, sharply, and with an envious scowl. 'With the cestus! cried Glaucus; 'there you are wrong, Lydon; the cestus is the Greek fashion: I know it well.
Tetraides, tho no taller than Lydon, weighed considerably more; the natural size of his muscles was increased, to the eyes of the vulgar, by masses of solid flesh; for, as it was a notion that the contest of the cestus fared easiest with him who was plumpest, Tetraides had encouraged to the utmost his hereditary predisposition to the portly.
If she had come, unnamed, as any country maid, her loveliness would have dazzled him like sea-foam in the sun; but she was girt with her magical Cestus, a spell of beauty that no one can resist. Without a bribe she might have conquered, and she smiled upon his dumb amazement, saying, "Paris, thou shalt yet have for wife the fairest woman in the world."
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