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Minerva (He describes the goddess)

He describes the goddess as Father Nile. appearing, grief-stricken, to appeal against what his lordship deemed a desecration: "Yes, 'twas Minerva's self; but ah, how changed Since o'er the Dardan field in arms she ranged!

Not such as erst, by her divine command, Her form appear'd from Phidias' plastic hand; Gone were the terrors of her awful brow, Her idle aegis bore no Gorgon now."