y winter; which was also expressed by the head-dress, which had the
front part woven of various ears of corn, even as the back appeared to
be composed of snow, ice, and hoar-frost. There followed after these the
old and monstrous Titan, who had with him the proud and audacious
Iapetus, his son. And Prometheus, who was born of Iapetus, was seen
coming after them all grave and venerable, with a little statue of clay
in one of his hands, and in the other a burning torch, denoting the fire
that he is said to have stolen from Jove out of Heaven itself. And after
him, as the last, to conclude the company of the second car, there were
seen coming, with a Moorish habit and with a sacred elephant's head as a
cap, likewise two of the Atlantides, who, as has been told, first adored
Heaven; and, in addition, in token of the things that were used by them
in their first sacrifices, there were in the hands of both, in a great
bundle, the ladle, the napkin, the cleaver, and the casket of incense.

THIRD CAR, OF SATURN.

Saturn, the son of Heaven, all white and old, who was shown greedily
devouring some children, had the third car, no less ornate than the
last, and drawn by two great black oxen; and to enhance the beauty of
that car, even as in the last there were seven fables painted, so in
that one it was thought proper that five of his fables should be
painted. For the first, therefore, was seen this God surprised by his
wife Ops as he lay taking his pleasure of the gracious and beautiful
Nymph Philyra, on which account being constrained to transform himself
into a horse in order not to be recognized by her, it was shown how from
that union there was born afterwards the Centaur Cheiron. Even as in the
second was seen his other union with the Latin Entoria, from which
sprang at one and the same birth Janus, Hymnus, Felix, and Faustus, by
whom the same Saturn distributed among the human race that so useful
invention of planting vines and making wine; and there was seen Janus
arriving in Latium and there teaching his father's invention to the
ignorant people, who, drinking intemperately of the new and most
pleasing liquor, and therefore sinking little by little into a most
profound sleep, when finally they awakened, thinking that they had been
poisoned by him, were seen rushing impiously to stone and slay him; on
which account Saturn, moved to anger, chastised them with a most
horrible pestilence; but in the end it was shown how he wa