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Minerva, the Goddess of wisdom, war, and all the liberal arts, came forth,
armed and grown up, from her father's brain, and was immediately admitted
into the association of the Gods, becoming one of the most faithful
counsellors of her father. She was indeed the only one of all the
divinities whose authority, and consequence, were equal to those of
Jupiter.
"From Jove's awful head sprang forth to light,
In golden panoply superbly dight;
And while the glittering spear thy hands essayed,
Olympus trembled at the martial maid.
Affrighted earth sounds from her deepest caves,
And swell of Ocean tides the sable waves;
The turgid billows sink; in heaven's high plains
His steeds the son of Hyperion reins,
Till Pallas lays her arms divine aside,
While Jove his daughter views with conscious pride."