in Pagan worship, was the sister and wife of Jupiter, and the goddess of kingdoms and riches; and also styled the queen of heaven: she presided over mar- riage and childbirth, and was represented as the daugh- ter of Saturn and Rhea. She married Jupiter; but was not the most compliant wife: for according to Homer, that god was sometimes obliged to make use of all his authority to keep her in due subjection; and the same author observes, that on her entering into a conspiracy against him, he punished her by suspending her in the air with two anvils fastened to her feet, and golden manacles on her hands, while all the other deities looked on without a possibility of helping her. However, her jealousy made her frequently find opportunities of interrupting her husband in the course of his amours; and prompted her to punish with unrelenting fury Eu- ropa, Semele, Io, Latona, and the rest of his mistres- ses. Jupiter himself having conceived without any commerce with a female, Juno, in revenge, conceived Vulcan by the wind, Mars by touching a flower point- ed out to her by the goddess Flora, and Hebe by eating greedily of lettuces.

Juno, as the queen of heaven, preserved great state: her usual attendants were Terror and Boldness, Caster, Pollux, and 14 nymphs; but her most faithful attend- ant 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 repre- sented 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.