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Under the notion of Amazons, the antients drew 

 young damfels, of a fierce and daring afpecl:, in gre- 

 cian habits. This feems to have been a favourite idea 

 of the artifts, but more in bas-reliefs than in ftatues. 

 That which has been the longer! famous is in the orti 

 Martelli with the quiver under her arm. The moll 

 beautiful figure of this kind is faid to have been brought 

 from Italy, and is to be feen in the earl of Pembroke's 

 collection. She is reprefented lying under a horfe, 

 and defending herfelf againft the rider. It is affirmed 

 to be the workmanfhip of Cleomenes, whofe chirTei 

 produced the famous medicean Venus. In the palace 

 Cefi Hands a fine figure in long drapery, under this 

 name. She is celebrated on account of this drapery, 

 and remains unreftored. Epifcopius has given us a 

 drawing of her in his 37th plate. However, this is no 

 Amazon, but rather a Juno Regina. 



The Juno Regina too belongs to the clafs of thofe 

 ftatues which are often confounded with others. She 

 is betokened by the diadem on her head, and the ma- 

 jerry of her perfon. Under this name there is, in the 

 giuftinian palace, a female ftatue, long renowned, of 

 a drapery extraordinarily fine. But the too Unking 

 individuality in the character of the head, which alto- 

 gether deviates from the ideal of this goddefs, gives us 

 room to fuppofe it to be the portrait of fome imperial 

 lady. The figure that appears under this name, larger 

 than life, in Perrier, . is probably rather a mufe in a 

 rapture. The Juno Regina is often like the Venus 

 Cceleftis, and it has frequently happened that the re- 

 Itorer has made either the one or the other, according 

 to his fancy, out of fome antient trunk. 



Juno 



