re followed by
two Roman priests, who appeared likewise to be about to sacrifice to him
some waxen images, as it were after the more modern use, since they
were seen delivered by means of the example of Hercules, who used
similar waxen images, from the impious custom of sacrificing men to
Saturn, introduced into Italy by the Pelasgians. These, like the others
with Quiet, had likewise between them the venerable Vesta, daughter of
Saturn, who, very narrow in the shoulders and very broad and full in the
flanks, after the manner of a round ball, and dressed in white, carried
a lighted lamp in the hand. And after them, as the last, closing the
third company, was seen coming the Centaur Cheiron, the son, as has been
told, of Saturn, armed with sword, bow, and quiver; and with him another
of the sons of the same Saturn, holding the crooked lituus (for the
reason that he was an augur) in the hand, and all robed in green
draperies, with a bird, the woodpecker, on the head, because into such a
bird, according as the fables tell, it is believed that he was
transformed by Cheiron.

FOURTH CAR, OF THE SUN.

To the resplendent Sun was dedicated the fourth car, all glittering,
gilded, and jewelled, which, drawn according to custom by four swift and
winged coursers, was seen to have Velocity, with a head-dress of a
dolphin and a sail on the head, as charioteer; and in it were painted
(as has been told of the others), but with a different distribution, and
as pleasing and gracious as could well be imagined, seven of his fables.
For the first of these was seen the fate of the too audacious Phaethon,
who contrived so ill to guide that same car, even as for the second was
seen the death of the serpent Python, and for the third the chastisement
inflicted on the rash Marsyas. In the fourth was seen how the Sun
deigned for a time to lead a humble pastoral life, grazing the flocks of
Admetus; even as in the fifth was seen how, flying from the fury of
Typhoeus, he was constrained to change himself into a raven. In the
sixth were likewise depicted his other transformations, first into a
lion and then into a hawk; and as the last was seen his love received so
ill by the timid Daphne, who finally, as is very well known, was changed
by the compassion of the Gods into laurel. At the foot of the car, then,
were seen riding, all winged and of different ages and colours, the
Hours, the handmaids and ministers of the Sun, each of whom, in
imitation