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On the contrary, the Juno Regina and the
Juno Monet a are always in a fine and more
magnificent dress
The face of the Mild Juno is gentle, and
more good-humoured than usual. It has the
same air with which {he appears on a Greek
medal, {landing in a chariot drawn by peacocks.
This idea, which was also received by the poets,
will be farther considered among the deities of the
air.
° Juno Moneta was so called from inonendo, /he having admo-
nilhed her priest to atone for an earthquake by the sacrisice of a
pregnant sow. Her temple flood in the capitol, wherein was
placed the standard Roman foot, hence called pes tnonetalis. It
was probably burnt down with the capitol; for Pliny speaks of a
brazen dog destroyed in it.
Virgil’s description of Juno’s arms and war-chariot, in his sirfl
TEneid, and her warlike figure in the second, which seem incon-
sistent with her establiflied charafters, may be accounted for by
-considering that he speaks, in the first place, of the Carthaginian
Juno ; and, in the other, of the Juno Argiva, who was wor-
shipped under that name, even in Italy, Ovid. iii. el. 13. Hele-
nus ordered the Romans to worlhip Juno, which they did; and,
in time, /he came to prefer them to her mofl favorite nations,
Virg. ii. v. 433. Ovid. Fast. vi. 45. 48. There was, in-
deed, a Juno Sospita, who, in some family medals, appears in a
war-chariot, and with a spear in her hand. But though flie was
so well known as to be frequently seen in dreams, in all her ac-
coutrements, yet Virgil could not, in his description, have an eye
to her, as there is not a line in any Roman poet descriptive of her,
being only a local goddess, and worshipped chiessy at Lanuvium,
Cic. de nat. deor. L. i. Silius, 1. viii. v. 36a. 1. 13. v. 365.
Ovid. Fast. ii, v. 61,
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On the contrary, the Juno Regina and the
Juno Monet a are always in a fine and more
magnificent dress
The face of the Mild Juno is gentle, and
more good-humoured than usual. It has the
same air with which {he appears on a Greek
medal, {landing in a chariot drawn by peacocks.
This idea, which was also received by the poets,
will be farther considered among the deities of the
air.
° Juno Moneta was so called from inonendo, /he having admo-
nilhed her priest to atone for an earthquake by the sacrisice of a
pregnant sow. Her temple flood in the capitol, wherein was
placed the standard Roman foot, hence called pes tnonetalis. It
was probably burnt down with the capitol; for Pliny speaks of a
brazen dog destroyed in it.
Virgil’s description of Juno’s arms and war-chariot, in his sirfl
TEneid, and her warlike figure in the second, which seem incon-
sistent with her establiflied charafters, may be accounted for by
-considering that he speaks, in the first place, of the Carthaginian
Juno ; and, in the other, of the Juno Argiva, who was wor-
shipped under that name, even in Italy, Ovid. iii. el. 13. Hele-
nus ordered the Romans to worlhip Juno, which they did; and,
in time, /he came to prefer them to her mofl favorite nations,
Virg. ii. v. 433. Ovid. Fast. vi. 45. 48. There was, in-
deed, a Juno Sospita, who, in some family medals, appears in a
war-chariot, and with a spear in her hand. But though flie was
so well known as to be frequently seen in dreams, in all her ac-
coutrements, yet Virgil could not, in his description, have an eye
to her, as there is not a line in any Roman poet descriptive of her,
being only a local goddess, and worshipped chiessy at Lanuvium,
Cic. de nat. deor. L. i. Silius, 1. viii. v. 36a. 1. 13. v. 365.
Ovid. Fast. ii, v. 61,
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