"Now by sweet Cupid his tender bow!" panted Sir Jocelyn"by the cestus of lovely Venusaye, by the ox-eyed Juno, I swear 'twas featly done, Sir Smith!" Quoth Beltane, taking up the fallen sword: "'Tis a trick I learned of that great and glorious knight, Sir Benedict of Bourne.

Celeno, ii. Centaures, iii. Cephise, i. Cephisus, ii. Cerberus, i.; iv.; v. Cestus, iii.

St. 5 This is the cestus in Homer, which Venus lends to Juno for the purpose of enchanting Jupiter Greek: N kai apo staethesphin elusato keston himanta Poikilon' entha de ohi thelktaeria panta tetukto' Enth' heni men philotaes, en d' himeras, en d' oaristus, Parphasis, hae t' eklepse noon puka per phroneonton.

Wrestle with me, or try the cestus against me.

CESTUS, a covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

They were those of the helmed Minerva, and not of the cestus-girdled Venus.

Wherefore, young ladies all, learn from this that the true cestus, fabledNo!

Armida had an enchanted girdle, which, "in price and beauty," surpassed all her other ornaments; even the cestus of Venus was less costly.

With that sweetest holyday, Must the May of Life depart; With the cestus loosedaway Flies ILLUSION from the heart!

It was practised with the clenched fists, either naked or armed with the deadly cestus.

The cestus, like our "brass-knuckle," was a thong of hide, loaded with lead, and bound over the hand.

Mr. 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.

By all means let the "profession" take the cestus from the hands of the highwayman and adopt it themselves.

He made Way for a softer Appearance, it was Venus, without any Ornament but her own Beauties, not so much as her own Cestus, with which she had incompass'd a Globe, which she held in her right Hand, and in her left she had a Sceptre of Gold.

The other kind of vineyard, is that where each shoot which promises to bear grapes is lifted from the earth and supported about two feet off the ground by a forked stick: by this means the grapes, as they form, learn to hang as it were from a branch and do not have to be taught after the vintage; they are held in place with a bit of cord or by that kind of tie which the ancients called a cestus.

APHRODI`TE, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, wife of Hephæstos and mother of Cupid; sprung from sea-foam; as queen of beauty had the golden apple awarded her by Paris, and possessed the power of conferring beauty, by means of her magic girdle, the cestus, on others.

CESTUS, a girdle worn by Greek and Roman women, specially the girdle of Aphrodité, so emblazoned with symbols of the joys of love that no susceptible soul could resist the power of it; it was borrowed by Hera to captivate Zeus.

Nay, is not this very interfusion of gifts, this universality of uses, in itself the bond of beauty which girdles the world like a cestus?