VIRTUE

Daughter of Truth, is represented clothed in white, as an emblem of purity;

sometimes holding a sceptre, at others crowned with {248} laurel; while she

is in many instances drawn with wings, and placed upon a block of marble,

to intimate her immoveable firmness.

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