With gold, received her blithely, and enrobed
With heavenly vestments: her immortal head
They wreathed with golden fillet, beautiful,
And aptly framed: her perforated ears
They hung with jewels of the mountain-brass
And precious gold: her tender neck, and breast
Of dazzling white, they deck’d with chains of gold,
Such as the Hours wear braided with their locks.
Hymn to Venus.
[39] His herald from above.] The first edition had “winged herald;” but the wings of Mercury are the additions of later mythologists. Homer, in the Odyssey, speaks only of