Sedilibusque magnus in primis eques

Othone contempto sedet.’

Horace, Epod. iv. 11-16.

SPINNING.
The Parcae spin the Web of Fate.

[A.]

Laeva colum molli lana retinebat amictum,

Dextera tum leviter deducens fila supinis

Formabat digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens

Libratum tereti versabat turbine fusum,