"... His well-orb'd shield he holds, New wrought, and with a double impress charg'd: A warrior, blazing all in golden arms, A female form of modest aspect leads, Expressing justice, as th' inscription speaks, 'Yet once more to his country, and once more To his Paternal Throne I will restore him'-- Such their devices ..." VIRGIL. (_The Æneid._) 1. ("Atque hic exultans--insigne decorum."--Lib. ii. lines 386-392.) "Choræbus, with youthful hopes beguil'd, Swol'n with success, and of a daring mind, This new invention fatally design'd. 'My friends,' said he, 'since fortune shows the way, 'Tis fit we should the auspicious guide obey. For what has she these Grecian arms bestowed, But their destruction, and the Trojans' good? Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war. They find us arms.'--This said, himself he dress'd In dead Androgeos' spoils, his upper vest, His painted buckler, and his plumy crest." 2. ("Post hos insignem--serpentibus hydram."--Lib. vii. lines 655-658.) "Next Aventinus drives his chariot round The Latian plains, with palms and laurels crown'd. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field; His father's hydra fills his ample shield; A hundred serpents hiss about the brims; The son of Hercules he justly seems, By his broad shoulders and gigantic limbs." 3. ("Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur--insigne paternæ."--Lib. x. lines 180-188.) "Fair Astur follows in the wat'ry field, Proud of his manag'd horse, and painted shield. Thou muse, the name of Cinyras renew, And brave Cupavo follow'd but by few; Whose helm confess'd the lineage of the man, And bore, with wings display'd, a silver swan. Love was the fault of his fam'd ancestry. Whose forms and fortunes in his Ensigns fly." {9} HERODOTUS. 1. _Cilo_, § 171. ("[Greek: Kai sphi trixa exeurêmata egeneto--ta sêmêia poieesthai.]") "And to them is allowed the invention of three things, which have come into use among the Greeks:--For the Carians seem to be the first who put crests upon their helmets and sculptured devices upon their shields." 2. _Calliope_, § 74. ("[Greek: O deteros tôn logôn--epioêmon ankuran.]") "Those who deny this statement assert that he (Sophanes) bare on his shield, as a device, an anchor." TACITUS. (_The Annals_.--Lib. 1.) 1. ("Tum redire paulatim--in sedes referunt."--Cap. 28.) "They relinquished the guard of the gates; and the Eagles and other Ensigns, which in the beginning of the Tumult they had thrown together, were now restored each to its distinct station."