The Anathemata
Middle-sea and Lear-sea (continued)
Him up to heaven
in chariot-fire.4
The heaven-appointed beast of greya
to nourish the lily-white pair.
Horsed Dioscurib
to make ’em shape
restoring at the smothered centre, adjuvantc at the caving
flank;
David Jones notes
4 It will be recalled that the ‘Twelve Tables’ of Roman tradition were originally ten, that the temple of Vesta tabernacled the sacred fire, that the sacred shields came down from, that Romulus was assumed up to, heaven; that Scriptural tradition offers certain near parallels. We Europeans have participated of both traditions — of the one by right of cultural and racial inheritance, of the other by ‘adoption and grace’ –Teste David cum Sibylla.
additional notes
a the wolf which suckled Romulus and Remus.
b Castor and Pollux, noted horsemen and adventurers of Greek myth. (Dios kouroi, sons of Zeus by Leda. The best-known story of the twins’ birth is that Zeus disguised himself as a swan and seduced Leda. In Ancient Greek Dios=Zeus and ‘kouros’ means ‘youth, boy, especially of noble rank.’
see also
semantic structures
glossary
c adjuvant: a help or helper.
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