[137] 'The circlets of it are wrought of gold, and around each of them wind double curving rings; but the joinings are hidden, for a spiral of blue runs over all of them.' The ball seems to have been made of a number of separate circlets of gold, which were kept in position by two rings encircling them on the outside. The joinings of the κύκλα and ἁψῖδες were concealed by the spiral of blue.
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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