Classical Theology.—Lxxxi.

" The pride of Jove ' s imperious queen , the rage , The malice , which no sufferings can assuage , Compel me to these prayers ; since neither fate , Nor time , nor pity , can remove her hate . E ' en Jove is thwarted by his haughty wife ; Still vanquished , yefc she still renews the strife . " # * # # #

" She persecutes the ghosts of Troy with pains , And gnaws e ' en to the bones the last remains . Let her the cause of her hatred tell ; But you can witness its effects too well . " But let us pass on to some other of her acts , as recounted in the poem .

"Sublime on stately steeds the Trojans borne . To their expecting lord with peace return ; But jealous Juno from Pachynus height , As she from Argos took her airy flight , Beheld with envious eyes this stirring sight . She saw the Trojan and his joyful train ,

Descend upon the shore , desert the main , Design a town , and , with unhoped success , Ambassadors return with promised peace . Then , pierced with pain , she shook her haughty head , Sighed from her inmost soul , and thus she said : * 0 , hated offspring of Phrygean foes !

0 , fates of Troy , who Juno ' s fates oppose ! Could they nofc fall unpitied on the plain , But slain , revive , and taken , ' scape again When execrable Troy in ashes lay , Through fires , anel swords , and seas they forced their way Then vanquished Juno must in vain contend ; Her rage disarm'd , her empire at an end ! ' "

"' On Tiber's shores they land , secure of fate , Triumphant o ' er the storms of Juno ' s hate ! Mars could in mutual blood thc centaur hathe , And Jove himself gave way to Cynthia's wrath , Who sent the dusky boar to Calydon—What great offence had either people clone ?

But I , the consort of the Thunderer , Have waged a long anel unsuccessful war , With various arts and arms in vain have toil ' el , And by a mortal man at length am foil'd . If native power prevail not , shall I doubt To seek for needful succour from without ?

If Jove and Heaven my just desires deny , Hell shall the power of Heaven and Jove supply . Grant that tho fates have 'firm'd by their decree The Trojan race to reign in Italy ; At least I can'defer the nuptial day , And with protracted wars the peace delay ;

With blood the dear alliance shall be bought . And both the people near destruction brought . ' " Thus , and much fco the same intent , having said in a few words more , we are told she sank be neath the ground with furious haste " To rouse Aleeto from th' infernal seat

Of her dire sisters , and their dark retreat , This fury , fit for her intent , she chose One who delights in wars and human woes . " Her , relates the iEneiad , Juno finds , and thus in cites her to her purpose—¦ " 0 , virgin daughter of eternal might , Give me this once thy labour to sustain

My right , and execute my jusfc disdain . Let nofc the Trojans , with a feigned pretence Of proiTcr ' clpeace , delude the Latian prince ; Expel from Italy that odious name , And let not Juno suffer in her fame . 'Tis thine to ruin realms , o ' erturn a state , Betwixt the dearest friends fco raise debates ,

And kindle kindred blood to mutual hates . Thy hand o'er towns the fun'ral torch displays , And forms a thousand ills ten thousand ways ; Now shake from out thy fruitful breast the seeds Of envy , discord and cruel deeds ; Confound the peace established and prepare

Their souls to hatred , and their hands fco war . Smeared as she wr . s with black Gorgonean blood , The fury sprang above the Stygian flood , And on her wicker wings , sublime through night , She to the Latian palace took her flight . " Virgil has made Juno , as we see , the

personification of jealousy , Aleeto hate in person , and Jupiter in himself absolute justice ; as for instance , according to the poem , in his rebuke of the proceedings of Juno , rehearsed by Venus pleading for her son , yEneas , that beauteous boy , thus so beautifully described : —

" Amid tire press appeared the beauteous boy , The care of "Venus and the hope of Troy ; His lovely face unarmed , his head was bare , In ringlets o ' er his shoulders hung his hair , His forehead circled with a diadem ; Distinguished from the crowd he shines a gem ,

Enchased in gold , or polished ivory set Amidst the meaner soil of sable jet . " Then thus in council of the exalted deities , to both replied the impei * ial god" Celestials ' . your attentive ears incline ! Since , said the god , tho Trojans may not join

In wish'd alliance with the Latian line—Since endless jarrings and immortal hate Tend bufc fco discompose our happy state , The war henceforth shall bo resigned to fate—Each to his proper fortune stand or fall : Equal and unconcerned I look on all ;

Kutulians , Trojans are tire same to me , And both shall draw the lots their fates decree . Let these assault , if fortune be their friend ; And if she favour those , let those defend ; The fates shall find a way . " We are aware , nevertheless , to the taunts of . / Eneas , Turnus rejoined , " No threats of thine my manly breast can move ;

'Tis hostile heaven I dread , and partial Jove . " Eor he bore in mind , and it is to be borne in mind , the answer of the Pounder of Mankind to Satumia , his consort , when , according to her suitable advice , herein expressed , that

" Latium be Latium still let Alba reign , And Koine ' s immortal majesty remain . " He decreed still nofc unfavourable to Venus : — " All shall be Latium ; Troy without a name , And her lost sons forget from whence they came .