was Iarbas, King of Gaetulia, the son of the same Jove,
crowned with a white band, and with the head of a lion surmounted by a
crocodile as a cap, and his other garments interwoven with leaves of
cane and papyrus and various monsters, and with the sceptre and a
burning flame of fire in the hands. Behind these were seen coming
Xanthus, the Trojan River, likewise the son of Jove, in human form, but
all yellow, all nude, and all shorn, with the overflowing vase in his
hands, and Sarpedon, King of Lycia, his brother, in a most imposing
garb, and in his hand a little mound covered with lions and serpents.
And the last part of that great company, concluding the whole, was
formed of four armed Curetes, who kept clashing their swords one against
another, thus reviving the memory of Mount Ida, where Jove was saved
from the voracious Saturn by their means, drowning by the clash of their
arms the wailing of the tender babe; among whom, with the last couple,
for greater dignity, as Queen of all the others, winged and without
feet, and with much pomp and grandeur, proud Fortune was seen haughtily
approaching.

SIXTH CAR, OF MARS.

Mars, the proud and warlike God, covered with brightly-shining armour,
had the sixth car, adorned with no little richness and pomp, and drawn
by two ferocious wolves very similar to the reality; and therein his
wife Neriene and his daughter Evadne, figured in low-relief, served to
divide three of his fables, which (as has been told of the other cars)
were painted there. For the first of these, he was seen slaying the
hapless son of Neptune, Halirrhotius, in vengeance for the violation of
Alcippe, and for the second he was seen in most amorous guise lying
with Rea Silvia, and begetting by her the two great founders of Rome,
Romulus and Remus; even as for the third and last he was seen miserably
reduced to captivity (as happens often enough to his followers) in the
hands of the impious Otus and Ephialtes. Then before the car, as the
first figures, preceding it on horseback, were seen two of his priests,
the Salii, with their usual shields, the Ancilia, and clad and adorned
with their usual armour and vestments, and wearing on their heads, in
place of helmets, two caps in the likeness of cones; and they were seen
followed by the above-named Romulus and Remus in the guise of shepherds,
covered in rustic fashion with skins of wolves, while, to distinguish
the one from the other, Remus had six vultures place