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cost, wlien the Thessalian matrons assassinated her with 

 such ornaments. Over-zealous worshippers were they of 

 the celestial Yenus, the good, the retiring, the personifi- 

 cation of all that is amiable, beautiful, and modest : 



So stands the statue that enchants the world. 

 'November, 1850. 



