MEMOIRS OF 



this fort of lefler morality belonged not 

 to the times in which Homer lived ; nei- 

 ther is peculiar delicacy at all characleriftic 

 of the Juno he has drawn. His more 

 probable reafon for making her hide this 

 ornamental fpell, was the danger that Jupi- 

 ter, if he faw the borrowed zone, fo often 

 feen on the perfon of his daughter, would 

 know it, and, confcious of it's power to 

 excite paffion, would have been aware of 

 the defign of his wife, and either not al- 

 lowed of the interview, or difarmed the- 

 girdle of it's magic. Supreme wifdom muft 

 have foiled difcavercd art. Neither of thefe 

 fuppofitions occurred to Dr. Darwin, or 

 perhaps his Juno alfo had hidden her gay 

 talifman. 



Homer exprefsly fays, Juno did not take 

 her chariot on this conjugal vifit; but Dar- 

 win allots her that mode of conveyance, 

 and the change enabled him to affign to 

 the Emprefs of Heaven her due pomp and 



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