VICTORY, in Pagan worship, is represented by Hesiod as the daughter of Styx and Pallas; and Varro calls her the daughter of Heaven and Earth. The Romans erected

1 Relandi Fasti Consulares, p. 486. Traject. Batav. 1715, 8vo.

2 Vossius de Historicis Latinis, p. 195, 221. Fabricii Bibliotheca Latins, tom. iii. p. 123.

a temple to her, where they prayed the gods to give success to their arms. They painted her in the form of a woman, clad in cloth of gold. In some medals, she is represented with wings flying through the air, holding a laurel crown in one hand, and a palm in the other; but in other medals, she is seen standing upon a globe, with the laurel crown and branch of palm.