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...consular men were sent, and the rites of her sacred ceremonies, and a certain misshapen stone from the town of Pessinus in Phrygia, which the inhabitants called the mother of the gods, was carried to Rome with diligence, received with the highest reverence, and finally placed in a distinguished temple. As a sublime divinity and protector of the Republic, she was worshiped for many centuries with many ceremonies by the Romans and Italians. A truly marvelous mockery of fortune, or rather the blindness of men, or should I say the fraud and snare of demons, by whose work it was brought about that a woman driven by long labors, finally dying as an old woman and turned to ash, bound in the underworld, would be believed to be a goddess and honored with divine services by almost the entire world for such a long time.
ON JUNO, GODDESS OF KINGDOMS.
Chapter Four.
Juno, daughter of Saturn and Ops, through the songs of poets and the error of the gentiles, has been made most famous among all other women who were infected by the stain of paganism, to such an extent that the silent teeth of time (though they corrode all things) have not been able to eat away her infamous work, such that her name has not escaped being most well-known to our age. But we can rather recount her excellent fortune from this, because we have some memorable work to report. For she was born of the same birth with that Cretan Jupiter whom the deceived ancients fashioned as a god, and from infancy was sent to Samos, where she was educated with diligence until puberty, and eventually married her brother Jupiter, which his statue in the temple of Samos has testified for many centuries. For the Samians, thinking it brought no small glory to themselves and their descendants that Juno, whom they judge to be the queen of heaven and a goddess, was among them and married to Jupiter, and so that this memory would not easily dissolve, they built a huge temple, marvelous beyond others in the world, and dedicated it to her divinity, and made an image of her sculpted from Parian marble in the habit of a marrying virgin, and placed it in their temple. She, finally married to a great king, from his empire and fame growing day by day, which carried her name far and wide, also attained no small amount of splendor herself. Indeed, after she was made queen of heaven by poetic fictions and the insane liberality of the ancients, she who had been a mortal queen, they placed her in charge of the kingdoms and riches of Olympus; and also assigned to her marital rights and the help of women in labor; and many other things far more worthy of laughter than belief. From which (with the enemy of the human race persuading it) many temples were built to her everywhere...