ea-shells, with a horrible seal in the hand, while
she was represented as a tall and masterful matron, resplendent, old,
and white, and holding in the hand a great fish; and they were both seen
upon a most fantastic car in the semblance of a rock, very strange and
bizarre, drawn by two immense whales. At the foot of the car was seen
walking Nereus, their son, old, venerable, and covered with foam, and
with him Thetis, daughter of that Nereus and of Doris, and mother of
great Achilles, who was shown riding upon a dolphin; and she was seen
followed by three most beautiful Sirens figured in the usual manner, who
had behind them two very beautiful, although white-haired, Nymphs of the
sea, called Graeae, likewise daughters of the Sea-God Phorcys and of the
Nymph Ceto, clothed most pleasingly in various graceful draperies.
Behind these, then, were seen coming the three Gorgons with their snaky
locks, daughters of the same father and mother, who made use of a single
eye, with which alone, lending it to one another, they were all three
able to see; and there was likewise seen coming the cruel Scylla, with
the face and breast of a maiden and with the rest of the person in the
form of a fish, and with her the old, ugly, and voracious Charybdis,
transfixed by an arrow in memory of her well-deserved punishment. And
behind these, in order to leave the last part of the company more
gladsome in aspect, there was seen coming for the last, all nude, the
beautiful and pure-white Galatea, beloved and gracious daughter of
Nereus and Doris.

FIFTEENTH CAR, OF PAN.

In the fifteenth car, which had the natural and true appearance of a
shady forest counterfeited with much artifice, and was drawn by two
great white he-goats, was seen coming the rubicund Pan, the God of
forests and of shepherds, in the form of an old and horned Satyr,
crowned with foliage of the pine, with the spotted skin of a panther
across the body, and in the hands a great pipe with seven reeds and a
pastoral staff. At the foot of the car were seen walking some other
Satyrs and some old Sylvan Gods, crowned with fennel and lilies, and
holding some boughs of cypress in memory of the beloved Cyparissus.
After these, likewise, were seen coming two Fauns crowned with laurel,
and each with a cat upon the right shoulder; and behind them the wild
and beautiful Syrinx, beloved by Pan, who, flying from him, is said to
have been transformed by the Naiad sisters into a tremulous an