ll filled with sorrow,
although adorned with a rich vestment. And with them, to conclude the
last part of the company, was Caca, the sister of Cacus, adored by the
ancients as a Goddess for the reason that, laying aside her love for her
brother, she is said to have revealed to Hercules the secret of the
stolen cattle.

TWELFTH CAR, OF JUNO.

When Vulcan had passed, Queen Juno, adorned with a rich, superb, and
royal crown, and with vestments transparent and luminous, was seen
coming in much majesty upon the twelfth car, which was not less pompous
than any of the others, and drawn by two most lovely peacocks; and
between the five little stories of her actions that were seen painted
therein, were Lycorias, Beroe, and Deiopea, her most beautiful and most
favoured Nymphs. For the first of these stories was seen the unhappy
Callisto transformed by her into a bear, who was placed afterwards by
compassionate Jove among the principal stars in the heavens; and in the
second was seen how, having transformed herself into the likeness of
Beroe, she persuaded the unsuspecting Semele to beseech Jove that he
should deign in his grace to lie with her in the guise wherein he was
wont to lie with his wife Juno; on which account the unhappy mortal, not
being able to sustain the force of the celestial splendour, was consumed
by fire, and Jove was seen to take Bacchus from her belly and place him
in his own, preserving him for the full time of birth. In the third,
likewise, she was seen praying AEolus that he should send his furious
winds to scatter the fleet of Trojan AEneas; even as in the fourth she
was seen in like manner, filled with jealousy, demanding from Jove the
miserable Io transformed into a cow, and giving her, to the end that she
might not be stolen from her by Jove, into the custody of the
ever-vigilant Argus, who, as has been told elsewhere, was put to sleep
and slain by Mercury; and in the fifth picture was seen Juno sending
after most unhappy Io the pitiless gad-fly, to the end that he might
keep her continually pricked and stung. At the foot of the car, then,
were seen coming a good number of those phenomena that are formed in the
air, among which could be seen as the first Iris, regarded by the
ancients as the messenger of the Gods, and the daughter of Thaumas and
Electra; all lissom and free, and dressed in vestments of red, yellow,
blue, and green, signifying the rainbow, with two hawks' wings upon the
head that den