noon
By the people they had been devoured as dainties . Belshazzar On The Bench Now , Media was king of Odo . And from the simplicity of his manners hitherto , and his easy , frank demeanor toward ourselves , had we foolishly doubted that fact , no skepticism could have survived an illustration of it , which this very day we witnessed at noon . For at high noon , Media was wont to don his dignity with his symbols of state ; and sit on his judgment divan or throne , to hear and try all causes brought before him , and fulminate his royal decrees . This divan was elevated at one end of a spacious arbor , formed by an avenue of regal palms , which in brave state , held aloft their majestical canopy . The crown of the island prince was of the primitive old Eastern style ; in shape , similar , perhaps , to that jauntily sported as a foraging cap by his sacred majesty King Nimrod , who so lustily followed the hounds . It was a plaited turban of red tappa , radiated by the pointed and polished white bones of the Ray-fish .