lf, there were five folds; but on it he formed many curious works,
with cunning skill. On it he wrought the earth, and the heaven, and the
sea, the unwearied sun, and the full moon. On it also [he represented]
all the constellations with which the heaven is crowned, the Pleiades,
the Hyades, and the strength of Orion, and the Bear,[597] which they
also call by the appellation of the Wain, which there revolves, and
watches Orion;[598] but it alone is free[599] from the baths of the
ocean.

[Footnote 596: See Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 182, sqq.;
Riccius, Dissert. Hom. t.i.p. 216; Feith, Antiq. Hom. iv. 10, 4.
In reading this whole description, care must be taken to allow
for the freedom of poetic description, as well as for the skill
of the supposed artificer.]

[Footnote 597: Cf. Virg. Georg. i. 137; AEn. i. 748, iii. 516.]

[Footnote 598: Orion ascends above the horizon, as though in
pursuit of the Wain, which in return seems to observe his
movements. Manilius, i. 500: "Arctos et Orion adversis frontibus
ibant," which is compared by Scaliger, p. 28.]

[Footnote 599: Aratus, Dios. 48: [Greek: Arktoi kyaneou
pephylagmenoi okeanoio]. Virg. Georg. i. 246: "Arctos Oceani
metuentes aequore tingi." The student of ancient astronomy will do
well to compare Scaliger on Manil. i, p. 43, 2; Casaub. on
Strabo, i. init.]

In it likewise he wrought two fair cities[600] of articulate-speaking
men. In the one, indeed, there were marriages and feasts; and they were
conducting the brides from their chambers through the city with
brilliant torches,[601] and many a bridal song[602] was raised. The
youthful dancers were wheeling round, and amongst them pipes and lyres
uttered a sound; and the women standing, each at her portals, admired.
And people were crowded together in an assembly, and there a contest had
arisen; for two men contended for the ransom-money of a slain man: the
one affirmed that he had paid all, appealing to the people; but the
other denied, [averring] that he had received nought: and both wished to
find an end [of the dispute] before a judge.[603] The people were
applauding both,--supporters of either party, and the heralds were
keeping back the people; but the elders sat upon polished stones, in a
sacred[604] circle, and [the pleaders[605]] held in their hands the
staves of the clear-voiced heralds; with these then they arose, and
alternately pleaded their cause. Moreo