A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 486
eep such a secret; so he duga hole in the ground andwhispered the fact to theearth. He filled up the hole,but a reed grew from it, andin its whispers it told thetruth. Minerva (Athena). AtRome she was a o-reat divin-ity and regarded as thethinking power, her namecontaining the same root asmens. A… … Minerva (Athena.) Her festival, called Quinquatrus, lasted five days from March 19.Besides the chapel at the capitol she had one at the foot of theCoelian Hill, where she was called Capta, and another on the Aven-tine. The booty taken in war was often dedicated to her. She isrepresented in a coat…
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