TRUTH

Daughter of Jupiter and Saturn, is the parent of Justice and of Virtue. The

great Apelles has represented her, in his painting of Calumny, under the

appearance of a modest female; in her hand is placed a round mirror.

Ancient writers say, that she was for a long time hidden from the world at

the bottom of a well, but leaving its quiet on one occasion, she was scared

at the reception she met with, and returned to her hiding place, which is

intended to intimate, according to Democritus, the difficulty with which

she is discovered.

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