434 APPENDIX, NO II. 
looking proudly, and almost crowing out. Victory! and 
from the joy of his eye one might suppose that he intended 
to transport the dead body of the reptile through the air. 
Forgetful of his circling spires, and no longer venomous, 
the serpent remained as a warning to his species, and seemed 
to bid them betake themselves for ever to their hiding- 
places. But this figure of the Eagle was more admirable 
still, for it served as a dial: the horary divisions of the day 
were marked by lines inscribed on its wings ; these were 
easily discernible, by the skilful observer, when the sun's 
rays were not intercepted by clouds. But what shall I 
say of the statue of Helen ? how shall I describe the 
white-armed daughter of Tyndarus, with her taper neck 
-and well-turned ancles ? — she, who united all Greece 
against Troy, and laid Troy in ashes ; who, from the 
coast of Asia, visited the shores of the Nile, and finally 
revisited her native Sparta. Did she soften these bar- 
barians ? did she subdue these iron-hearted ? No, verily ! 
she, who once captivated all beholders, was now powerless : 
— and yet she was adorned, as for a public spectacle, with 
all her drapery ; her vest, transparent as the spider's web ; 
her fillet, and the coronet of gold and precious stones 
which encircled her brow, and dazzled by its splendour : 
her hair was partly confined in a knot, and partly waving 
in the wind, and flowing to her knees ; and the figure, 
though cast in brass, seemed fresh as the descending 
dew, while her swimming ^ eyes provoked love : her lips, 
(1) Thus Anacreon, Ode 28. bids the painter represent his mistress's eye, 
Afia yXavxov u; ' A^nvas, 
"A/^a y vy^ov «wj Ku6ri^ns. 
So also Lucinn, in his Dialogue of " the roi-lraii," speaks of the swim- 
ming softness of the eye blended with vivacity. 
