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 * "... His well-orb'd shield he holds,
 * New wrought, and with a double impress charg'd:
 * A warrior, blazing all in golden arms,
 * A female form of modest aspect leads,
 * Expressing justice, as th' inscription speaks,
 * 'Yet once more to his country, and once more
 * To his Paternal Throne I will restore him'—
 * Such their devices ..."


 * "Choræbus, with youthful hopes beguil'd,
 * Swol'n with success, and of a daring mind,
 * This new invention fatally design'd.
 * 'My friends,' said he, 'since fortune shows the way,
 * 'Tis fit we should the auspicious guide obey.
 * For what has she these Grecian arms bestowed,
 * But their destruction, and the Trojans' good?
 * Then change we shields, and their devices bear:
 * Let fraud supply the want of force in war.
 * They find us arms.'—This said, himself he dress'd
 * In dead Androgeos' spoils, his upper vest,
 * His painted buckler, and his plumy crest."


 * "Next Aventinus drives his chariot round
 * The Latian plains, with palms and laurels crown'd.
 * Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field;
 * His father's hydra fills his ample shield;
 * A hundred serpents hiss about the brims;
 * The son of Hercules he justly seems,
 * By his broad shoulders and gigantic limbs."


 * "Fair Astur follows in the wat'ry field,
 * Proud of his manag'd horse, and painted shield.
 * Thou muse, the name of Cinyras renew,
 * And brave Cupavo follow'd but by few;
 * Whose helm confess'd the lineage of the man,
 * And bore, with wings display'd, a silver swan.
 * Love was the fault of his fam'd ancestry.
 * Whose forms and fortunes in his Ensigns fly."