as the queen of heaven, preserved great state; her usual attendants were Terror and Boldness, Cattor, Pollux, and 14 nymphs; but her most faithful attendant was the beautiful Iris, or the rainbow. Homer describes her in a chariot adorned with precious stones, the wheels of which were of ebony, and which was drawn by horses with reins of gold. But she is more commonly painted drawn by peacocks. She was represented in her temple at Corinth, seated on a throne, with a crown on her head, a pomegranate in one hand, and in the other a sceptre with a cuckoo on its top. This statue was of gold and ivory.

Some mythologists suppose that Juno signifies the air; others, that she was the Egyptian Isis; who being represented under various figures, was by the Greeks and Romans represented as so many distinct deities.