LIBERTY, in Mythology, was a goddess worshipped both amongst the Greeks and the Romans. Amongst the former she was invoked under the title Eleutheria; by the latter she was called Libertas, and held in singular veneration. Temples, altars, and statues were erected in honour of this deity; and there was consecrated to her on the Aventine hill by Tiberius Gracchus, a magnificent temple, before which was a spacious court called atrium libertatis. The Romans also erected a temple in honour of Liberty, when Julius Caesar established his supremacy over them, as if their liberty had been secured by an event which proved fatal to its existence. In a medal of Brutus, Liberty is exhibited under the figure of a woman, holding in one hand a cap, the symbol of liberty, and in the other two poniards, with the inscription idibus Martii.