...e, graven cunningly, the Salian choir went leaping, and in Lupercalian feast the naked striplings ran; while others, crowned with peaked cap, bore shields that fell from heaven; and, bearing into Rome their emblems old, chaste priestesses on soft-strewn litters passed. But far from these th' artificer divine had wrought a Tartarus, the dreadful doors of Pluto, and the chastisements of sin; sw...