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,