hide of a Gætulian lion, loaded with shaggy hair and talons
of gold. On which Nisus:—“If the vanquished are 15
rewarded so largely—if you can feel for tumblers—what
prize will be great enough for Nisus’ claims? My
prowess had earned me the first chaplet, had not unkind
Fortune played me foul, as she played Salius;” and with
these words he displayed his features and his limbs, all 20
dishonoured by slime and ordure. The gracious prince
smiled at him, and bade them bring out a shield of Didymaon’s
workmanship, once wrested by the Danaans from