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ASTRAEA

Volume 3 · 71 words · 1810 Edition

in Astronomy, a name which some give to the sign Virgo, by others called Erigone, and some- times Isis. The poets feign that justice quitted hea- ven to reside on earth, in the golden age; but, grow- ing weary of the iniquities of mankind, she left the earth, and returned to heaven, where she commenced a constellation of stars, and from her orb still looks down on the ways of men.