I2 4 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



" fortes viros ominaretur" ; but as there is no Peacock, or any 

 " other attributes of her divinity attending her, and her appear- 

 " ance no ways majeftic, nor adequate to the 



" Divum Regina, Jovifque 



" Et foror et conjux 



" I cannot be entirely of his opinion, efpecially as me follows,. 

 " and feems to bean attendant of the next figure, which is 



" Pallas, Galea effulgent et Gorgone f<evd> the head of that monfter, 

 ' as ufually, being fixt upon her breaft. In her left hand fhe 

 "holds a fharp pointed fpear, her right is extended towards 

 " Diana, with whom, fhe feems engaged in a very earned dif- 

 " courfe, to which alfo that other Goddefs is very attentive. 

 " She is 



" The laft figure of the group, (though- called a man in air the 

 " accounts I have feen of this table) and reprefented here as the 

 " Diana Venatrix by the feminine drefs of her head, tucked up 

 " with a knot behind like the hair of the third figure ; by the 

 " bow in her left, and arrow in her right hand ; her fhort Tunica, 

 " which reaches down a little more than to the middle of her 

 " thighs, and her bufkins that come up no higher than the calf 

 " of her leg, have occafioned this miftake of her fex ; but Ovid 

 " tells us, 



' Talia fuccincla pinguntur crura Diana 

 " Cum fequiter fortes, fonior ipfa, feras. 



" Between the two figures of Pallas and Diana rifes a tall flender 

 " tree, with a crooked waving ilem, the branches of which are 



" difplayed 



