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This divine creature has lost an arm, which has been cut off at the shoulder, but she looks none the less lovely for the accident. She maybe some two-and-thirty years old; and she was born about two thousand years ago. Her name is the Venus of Milo. O Victrix! O lucky Paris! I wish we might sacrifice.
Hardly. But it was an inciting suggestion. She began to tremble as a lightning-flash made visible her fortunes recovered, disgrace averted, hours of peace for composition stretching before her: a summer afternoon's vista. It seemed a duel between herself and Mr. Tonans, and she sure of her triumph Diana victrix! 'Danvers! she called. 'Is it to undress, ma'am? said the maid, entering to her.
Soon there was only one noisy crowd, and that was round her landau, where she queened it among outstretched glasses, her yellow hair floating on the breeze and her snowy face bathed in the sunshine. Then by way of a finishing touch and to make the other women, who were mad at her triumph, simply perish of envy, she lifted a brimming glass on high and assumed her old pose as Venus Victrix.
The third murmured in somewhat broken English. "Victoria Victrix, Beata Beatrix," whereby I recognised him to be a poet, if not a painter. But the fourth an energetic-looking man with a somewhat arrogant manner said briskly: "Perchance the ass is right; these pine needles are becoming monotonous, and I have seventeen million four hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred and eleven more to do.
She seemed quite to have got over the fatigues of the sea-voyage, and in token that she felt better she had applied more red to her cheeks and lips than three days ago, and because she was to receive a visit from the sculptors, Papias and Aristeas, she had had her hair arranged as it was worn in the statue of Venus Victrix, with whose attributes she had, five years previously though not, it is true, without some resistance been represented in marble.
Drusus flew down the ranks and swung the farthest cohorts into alignment with the others. There was not a moment to lose. "Now, men, if ye be indeed soldiers of Cæsar, at them!" Drusus was astounded at the resonance of his own voice; a thousand others caught up the shout. "Venus victrix!" And straight into the teeth of the galloping hosts charged the thin line of infantry.
"It is impossible, with either pen or brush," wrote one who knew her, "to do any justice to her charms the brilliance of her eyes, which dazzled and thrilled all on whom they fell; the glory of her black hair, rippling in a cascade to her knees; the classic purity of her Grecian profile, the wild-rose delicacy of her complexion, the proud, dainty poise of her head, and the exquisite modelling of the figure which inspired Canova's 'Venus Victrix."
The verdict of fact and the verdict of literature on the great controversy between them have been summed up in the memorable line of Lucan Victrix causa Deis placuit, sed victa Catoni. Was Cato right, or were the gods right? Perhaps both.
Back he fell, pierced in face and breast, and tumbled from the car; and, as if answering to this lightening of their burden, the hoofs of the hard-pressed horses bit on the pavement, and the team bounded onward. "Io triumphe!" It was Drusus who called; and in answer to his shout came the deep Cæsarian battle-cry from hundreds of throats, "Venus Victrix!"
There were telescopic views of the Nemesis from some craft on orbit nearby, and he watched the officers and men of the Victrix being disembarked; there were other views of their landing at some naval installation on the ground, and he could see reporters being chevied away by Navy ground-police. And there was a wide range of commentary opinion.
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