Spence, Joseph; Tindal, Nicholas [Editor]; Dodsley, James [Oth.]: A Guide To Classical Learning: Or, Polymetis Abridged: Containing, I. By Way of Introduction, the Characters of the Latin Poets and their Work ... II. An Inquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Antient Artists ... Being a Work absolutely necessary, not only for the Right Understanding of the Classics, but also for forming in Young Minds a True Taste for the Beauties of Poetry, Sculpture, and Painting (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1786)

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in the trabea, a robe of state, which implies an
ecclesiastical, as well as a secular dignity, and
consequently sometimes with his lituus, or augu-
ral staff, in his hand k.
CASTOR and POLLUX.
Castor and Pollux were received among
the hero gods by the Greeks, and from them by
the Romans, who had particular obligations to
these deities, and therefore were very willing to
retain them in that high Ration *. Their statues
were common of old, and were placed, in parti-
cular, before the temple of Jupiter Tonans.
Their figures in marble, and on samily-medals
(which are to be met with very often) are ex-
actly alike. They have each a chlamys, and yet
are almost naked. Each has a star over his head.
Each has his horse of the same colour, and his
k Hor. in. od. 3. v. 16. Fast. ii. v. 496. Met. xiv. v. 820.
Fast. ii. v. 502. Fast. i. v. 375. Cicero calls it Romuli lituus,
and Virgil lituus quirinalis. Cic.de Div. 1. ZEn. vii. v. 187.
The lituus usually attends the heads of -Julius Caesar in gems
and medals, as a mark of his being, like Romulus, high-prieft
and king.
I They assisted the Romans at the lake of Regilia, and brought
the news of -ZEmilius’s decilive victory to Rome, the very day it
was obtained. See Liv. 1. ii. c. 20. and xlv. c. 6. Minucius
Felix laughs at these legends j and they are ridiculed by Cotta, the
Academic, Min. Fel. p. 43. Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1.2.
spear,