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Virtus is spoken of personally, both in versc
and prose. She had several temples at Rome,
with representations in them of her. Though
these may be all lost, her figure is common on
the medals of the emperors h. On these (he is
dressed like an Amazon. She is ibmetimes in a
coat of mail, or a short succin& vest, with her
legs bare like the Roman soldiers. She has a
manly face and air, and generally grasps a sword
or spear in her hand. Her dress Ihows her readi-
ness for a&ion, and her look a firmness not to be
conquered by difficulties or dangers h
F 2 Temperance
civility or polite behaviour, Honnetete : a downright behaviour
is by us vulgarly called honesty; and the women among us still
call chastity by the name of virtue.
Cicero speaks of Virtus and Fortitudo as the same thing, and
that it includes a love of adion, Tusc* qusest. 1. ii. p. 392. 1. v.
p. 501. deNat. Deor. 1. 1. p. 23. The best desinition of Virtue
seems to be St. Paul’s, i( A patient continuance in well-doing,’’
Rom. ij. 7. Hor. iii, od. 24. v. 44.
h Our author thinks her figure more common than is imagin*
td, and that in the Admiranda, what Bartoli takes to be the
genius of Rome, is this goddess5 as where lhe is giving the globe
to M. Aurelius, and where (in the old triumphal arches publish-
ed by the same author) ihe is guiding Titus’s chariot, and con-
ducing Adrian home.
i The difficulties attending the didates os the goddess Virtue
(or of a virtuous life) were strongly expressed in the antient em-
blem of a person climbing up a steep rocky mountain, and meet-
ing many obstacles in his way : but, when at the top, finding him-
self in a delicious country, with every pleasing objed about him,
Hor. 1, iii. od. 24. v. 44. Ovid, de Art. Am. ii. v. 557. Id. Her.
£P« xxi ¥.41. There can be no virtue without choice. It is, as
Cicere
Virtus is spoken of personally, both in versc
and prose. She had several temples at Rome,
with representations in them of her. Though
these may be all lost, her figure is common on
the medals of the emperors h. On these (he is
dressed like an Amazon. She is ibmetimes in a
coat of mail, or a short succin& vest, with her
legs bare like the Roman soldiers. She has a
manly face and air, and generally grasps a sword
or spear in her hand. Her dress Ihows her readi-
ness for a&ion, and her look a firmness not to be
conquered by difficulties or dangers h
F 2 Temperance
civility or polite behaviour, Honnetete : a downright behaviour
is by us vulgarly called honesty; and the women among us still
call chastity by the name of virtue.
Cicero speaks of Virtus and Fortitudo as the same thing, and
that it includes a love of adion, Tusc* qusest. 1. ii. p. 392. 1. v.
p. 501. deNat. Deor. 1. 1. p. 23. The best desinition of Virtue
seems to be St. Paul’s, i( A patient continuance in well-doing,’’
Rom. ij. 7. Hor. iii, od. 24. v. 44.
h Our author thinks her figure more common than is imagin*
td, and that in the Admiranda, what Bartoli takes to be the
genius of Rome, is this goddess5 as where lhe is giving the globe
to M. Aurelius, and where (in the old triumphal arches publish-
ed by the same author) ihe is guiding Titus’s chariot, and con-
ducing Adrian home.
i The difficulties attending the didates os the goddess Virtue
(or of a virtuous life) were strongly expressed in the antient em-
blem of a person climbing up a steep rocky mountain, and meet-
ing many obstacles in his way : but, when at the top, finding him-
self in a delicious country, with every pleasing objed about him,
Hor. 1, iii. od. 24. v. 44. Ovid, de Art. Am. ii. v. 557. Id. Her.
£P« xxi ¥.41. There can be no virtue without choice. It is, as
Cicere