cestus 的定义
plural ces·ti [ses-tahy]. /ˈsɛs taɪ/.
- a girdle or belt, especially as worn by women of ancient Greece.
- Classical Mythology. the girdle of Venus, decorated with every object that could arouse amorous desire.
更多cestus例句
- She said, and loosed from her bosom the embroidered, variegated cestus; 468 where all allurements were enclosed.
- Jupiter might as soon keep awake, when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.
- Venus, goddess of beauty, is represented either entirely naked, or with some scanty drapery called a “cestus.”
- Controversy with boxing is the cestus, that is, the lead-loaded glove, like the pugilists in the Æneid.
- He cared no more either for the prowess of two combatants who, wearing a cestus on the left arm, fought with sticks.