252 Dr. Wall on the life of Symbols. 
The flow movement of that planet, which is 
called Saturn> would naturally fugged, that he 
was under the patronage of fome Deity, didin- 
guilhed by fuperior gravity and wifdom •, and 
thence it was fuppofed to be the rendence of 
the mod ancient of the Gods, or time itfelf. 
Hence, as its fymbol, they afiumed the fey the, 
or the fickle, the particular attribute of that 
Deity. (See fig. 3. in the drawing). He is ex- 
prefsly called by Ovid, Falcifer Dens, (Fador, lib, 
I. 233.) and Juvenal fays that he afiumed the 
fickle, when he was deprived of the imperial 
crown, by his fon Jupiter* 
.... -- --- - - - prinfquam 
Sumferit agreftem, pofito Diademate, falcem 
Saturnus fugiens. Ju-v. Sat. XIII. 38. 
Hence he is commonly reprefented in medals 
and datues, holding an indrument of this kind 
in his hand *. 
c 
The red fiery appearance of the planet Mars> 
particularly, when he is in his mod perfect 
Quails ubi Oceani perfufus Lucifer unda, 
Quem Venus ante alios aftrorum diligit ignes, 
Extulitos facrum Cado, tenebrafque refolvit. 
Virg. JEn. VIII. 589. 
* See Montfaucon, Tom. I. PI. 5. Fig. 1. and Bryant's 
Mythology, vol. II. p. 259, 
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