. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . fferentreprefentatives of the fame thing. What Vefta, orthe Idoean mother, was to the Phrygians, and Ifis tothe Egyptians ; the fame was Jupiter to the Greeksand Romans, the great fymbol of iEther. So theauthor of the life of Homer, fuppofed to be the elderDionyfius of Halicarnaffus, and the poet himfelf (9).So Ennius, as quoted by Cicero
. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . fferentreprefentatives of the fame thing. What Vefta, orthe Idoean mother, was to the Phrygians, and Ifis tothe Egyptians ; the fame was Jupiter to the Greeksand Romans, the great fymbol of iEther. So theauthor of the life of Homer, fuppofed to be the elderDionyfius of Halicarnaffus, and the poet himfelf (9).So Ennius, as quoted by Cicero (i), Lo the bright heaven, nxihich all hivohe as Jove !and Euripides (2), See thefubUme expanfe. The boundlefs jEther, nvhich enfolds this ballThat hold for Jove, the Godfupreme oer all! To conclude with the words of Orpheus ; Jo-vc isomnipotent, he is the fnfl and the laji; the head and the middle , (8) Plato in Cratylo. (9) Zsuj 08 0 atSng, Tot/T£;;v n ttv aJon? Jtai tv^a^^wo? u<r«5 j Opufc. Mytholog. p. 326 & 327. C l) Ajijtce hoc fuhllme candent, quern i?tvccant omnei Jovem. (2) Vldtsfuhlimefufam, itumwleratum aihera,^ui ttnero tnram circiimjeCiu a:npldSlitin\,Hunc fummum babeio dlv^m; ferhibtto Jovem,Cictrro de Nat. Deorum, 1. T nt ? H E A T HEN GODS. 37 tniJJ/e i the giver of all things ; the of ihfearth and/larry ht-avens ; he :j hoth male and female^ andimmortcd, Jitpiler is the jburce of enliveningp-e^ andthe ffirit of all things CHAP. XVf. OF JUNO. JUNO, the fifter and confort of Jtipiter, was onthat account ftiltd tlie queen of heaven, and indeedwe find her in the rmets fuppoiling that dignity withan ambition and pride fuitable to the rank fhe bore. Though the poetical hiftcrians agree (lie came intothe world at a birth with her hufband, yet they differas to the place, fome placing her nativity at Argcs,others at Samos near the river Imbrafus. Some fayfne was nurfed by Porfyinna, and Arzea,daughters of the river Aiterion; others
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