Frolick’d in wanton bounds.
In the ‘Shield of Achilles’ no mention is made of Perseus, but in the ‘Shield of Hercules’ this well-known constellation seems described in the lines—
There was the knight of fair-hair’d Danae born,
Perseus; nor yet the buckler with his feet
Touch’d nor yet distant hover’d, strange to see,
For nowhere on the surface of the shield
He rested; so the crippled artist-god
Illustrious fram’d him with his hands in gold.
Bound to his feet were sandals wing’d; a sword
Of brass, with hilt of sable ebony,