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[Y] This paragraph was not read at the lecture, time not allowing: -- it is part of what I wrote on engraving some years ago, in the papers for the Art Journal, called the Cestus of Aglaia.
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859
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Venus possessed an embroidered girdle called Cestus, which had the power of inspiring love.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Venus possessed an embroidered girdle called Cestus, which had the power of inspiring love.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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The Cestus was a kind of gauntlet, or glove, made of straps of leather, and plated with brass, lead or iron.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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These bad guys happen to be set up in a phalanx formation, making them immune to Kratos 'standard blade attacks, so taming the beast (albeit momentarily) or using the Cestus are the only ways to get past them.
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That goddess had arrayed herself in all her charms, and to crown all had borrowed of Venus her girdle, called "Cestus," which had the effect to heighten the wearer's charms to such a degree that they were quite irresistible.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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That goddess had arrayed herself in all her charms, and to crown all had borrowed of Venus her girdle, called "Cestus," which had the effect to heighten the wearer's charms to such a degree that they were quite irresistible.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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The Gorn were hostile to us from the start—they decoyed Enterprise into sending a landing party down to a planet called Cestus III, where they’d already destroyed a Federation outpost.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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The Gorn were hostile to us from the start—they decoyed Enterprise into sending a landing party down to a planet called Cestus III, where they’d already destroyed a Federation outpost.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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The Gorn were hostile to us from the start—they decoyed Enterprise into sending a landing party down to a planet called Cestus III, where they’d already destroyed a Federation outpost.
The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002
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