Bellona gashes her cheeks,—without being able to make that blood flow by which her devotees were purified.)
Anthony. "Mercy!—they weary me!"
Hilarion. "Before, they amused thee!"
(And he shows him in a grove of bean-trees, A Woman, naked ............. and a black man, holding in each hand a torch.[8])
"It is the goddess of Aricia, with the demon Virbius. Her sacerdote, the King of the grove, had to be an assassin;[9] and the fugitive slaves, the despoilers of corpses, the brigands of the Via Salaria, the cripples of the Pons Sublicius, all the human vermin of the Suburra worshipped no deities so fervently.
"In the time of Marcus Antonius the patrician women preferred Libitina."
(And he shows him under the shadow of cypresses and rose-trees, Another Woman, clad in gauze. Around her lie spades, litters, black hangings, all the paraphernalia of funerals. She smiles. Her diamonds shine afar off through spiders' webs. The Larvæ, like skeletons, show their bones through the branches; and the Lemures, who are phantoms, extend their bat-like wings.
At the end of a field lies the god Terminus, uprooted, and covered with ordures.
In the centre of a furrow, the great corpse of Vertumnus is being devoured by red dogs.