gave to those who could wear it “the virtue of chaste love and
wifehood true;” but if any woman not chaste and faithful put it on, it
“loosed or tore asunder.” It was once the cestus of Venus, made by her
husband Vulcan; but when she wantoned with Mars it fell off, and was
left on the “Acidalian mount.”
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