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" Atfi Phoebus adeft, et f rents Gryphajugalem 

 " Riphso, Tripodos repetens, detorfh ab exis, &c. 



" Clofe to the right hand column, and this pyramidal pile, 

 " fits a woman upon a fquare four-footed flool, though no more 

 " than two of its legs are vifible ; me looks backwards over her 

 " left fhoulder towards Apollo, is wrapt up in a long garment, 

 " or Stola, from head to foot, and veiled : by this drefs and attire, 

 " and an altar with the eternal fire burning upon it juft by her, 

 " which was brought with her from Troy, I take her to be Vefta. 



" Manibus vittas, veftamque potentem, 



" ^Eternumquc Adytis effert penetralibus ignem. Virg. 



" Et vos virginea lucentis femper in ara 



<( Laomidontise Trojana Altaria flammas. Sil. ItaL 



" The next is a woman creel, her hair gathered up, and tied 

 " with a knot behind ; upon her forehead rifes a Tutulus, and flie 

 " is habited in a Stola from the moulders to the ground. Her 

 " right arm is wrapt up crofs her bread in her garb, only the 

 " hand appearing out of it ; in her left me holds a fpear, the 

 " ihaft twifted, the iron of it fome thing obtufe. This feems to 

 " be the only human figure in the company ; but a very learned 

 " gentleman of my acquaintance thinks it may be defigned for 

 " Juno, who is often thus accoutred with a fpear. If fo, it mufl 

 " be the effigies of the Juno Curls, or Juno hajlata ; w r e have it from 

 Ovid, 



" Quod hafta curis prifcis eft dicta Sabinis. 



" She was the fame with Juno Pronuba. " Cclebri hafta nubentis 

 " caput comcbatur, vel quia Junonis Curitis in tutela effet, vel ut 



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