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cestus

An obsolete term for a fold of tissue formed in the roof of the fourth ventricle during the development of the neural tube.
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(14) John Ruskin, The Cestus of Aglaia, The Works of John Ruskin, ed.
Poetry in the Victorian marketplace: the illustrated Princess as a Christmas gift book
The "cestus" or girdle that Venus abandons when she journeys to visit "her Paramoure, / The God of warre" (4.5.6) and that is subsequently lost by Florimel is related to the same thematic wordplay.
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Star Wars: The Cestus Deception (a clone wars novel), Steven Barnes
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For example, Daley quotes Ruskin's statement in The Cestus of Aglaia (1865) about Leonardo's capriciousness: "'Because Leonardo made models of machines, dug canals, built fortifications, and dissipated half his art-power in capricious ingenuities, we have many anecdotes of him;--but no picture of importance on canvas, and only a few withered stains of one upon a wall.' (19:129-30)" (95) He then quotes Ruskin's comparison of Luini and Leonardo, which follows the statement on capriciousness:
Kenneth Daley, The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin
In the end, Greece was to be more important, and its increasing significance in his writing is traceable from The Ethics of the Dust and The Cestus of Aglaia (1865-66) to the climax of The Queen of the Air (1869).
'To see the finger of God in the dimensions of the pyramid': a new context for Ruskin's "The Ethics of the Dust" (1866)
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