[614] Stat. Theb. 5. 280, in an imitation of this passage quoted by Cerda, represents even Venus as armed: “illa, qua rara silentia, porta Stat funesta Venus, ferroque accincta furentis Adiuvat.” Juno's arms have been already mentioned 1. 16. Cerda, in a note there, observes from Festus and Plutarch that Juno was sometimes represented with a spear under the title of “Curitis” (“curis,” the Sabine spear); and Serv. quotes a prayer used in the “sacra Tiburtia,” “Iuno curulis, tuo curru clipeoque tuere meos curiae vernulas sane.” One inferior MS. fills up the hemistich with the words ‘saevasque accendit ad iras.’
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