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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 .

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THE POPE AND FREEMASONRY. Article 1
CLASSICAL THEOLOGY.—LXXXI. Article 1
ADVANCEMENT OF CANDIDATES. Article 4
A FEDERAL MASON IN DANGER. Article 5
ON LODGES AND THEIR FURNITURE. Article 6
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 9
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 9
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 11
MASONIC MEM. Article 11
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS. Article 11
METROPOLITAN. Article 11
PROVINCIAL. Article 14
Obituary. Article 16
BRO. JOHN T. ARCHER. Article 16
BRO. H. L. P. GENTILE. Article 16
NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Article 16
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 17
REVIEWS. Article 17
THE WEEK. Article 17
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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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 .

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