cestus

IPA(Pronunciation)

/sɛstəs/

Noun

obsolete

(obsolete) A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love.

Japanese Meaning

（古語）アフロディーテ（またはヴィーナス）の帯。身に着けると愛を呼び覚ます力があるとされた帯。

Legend held that the queen's cestus could make any suitor fall hopelessly in love.

伝説では、王妃が身につけていた、アフロディーテのもので愛を引き起こすとされた腰帯が、どんな求婚者でも深く恋に落とすと言われていた。

Sense（1）

(obsolete) A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love.

With pasture slopes, and flocks just visible;

Then, further still, soft wavy wastes of forest,

In all the varied tints of sylvan verdure,

Descending to the plain; then, wide and boundless,

The plain itself, with towns and cultured tracts,

And its fair river gleaming in the light,

With all its sweepy windings, seen and lost,

And seen again, till through the pale grey tint

Of distant space, it seem'd a loosen'd cestus

From virgin's tunic blown; and still beyond,

The earth's extended vastness from the sight

Wore like the boundless ocean.

cesti

（ plural ）