MINERVA

The Latin godde corresponding to, confounded with, the Grecian Pallas (LTaAAijc), or Athena (A.'9i)vn)- She was fabled to have sprung in full armour from the forehead of her father Jupiter. Minerva was worshipped as the godde of wisdom, and the patrone of dustry and the arts. Athens, the city to which she gave name, was her favourite spot; and there her worship celebrated with great splendour, and the magnificent temple, the Par the non, erected to her honour. But she was worshipped at Rome with peculiar veneration. There had three temples: one on the Capitol, which she shared with Jupiter and Juno; a second on the Aventine; and third on the Cslian mount, in which she was worshipped Minerva Capta, an epithet said to have been applied when her statue was transported from Falerii, after the capture that city by Camillus. At Rome there were also two great festivals celebrated annually in her honour; the one called 756 [s. 770]