ALCMENA, INO, ATHAMAS, SEMELE, &C.). She bore to him Mars, Hebb', Ilithyia, and Vulcan. Indignant at his unfaithfulness, she retired to Eubcea, but was reconciled through an artifice, by which he made her believe he was about to marry Asepus's daughter Platma (in comme moration of which the Boeotian Daa'ala were instituted). To punish her for subsequent remonstrances Jupiter suspended her from heaven by a golden chain, and bound a heavy anvil to her feet ; and, for assisting her then, Vulcan (q.v.) was kicked out of Olympus. To avenge this treatment, Juno incited the gods to conspire against Jupiter's sovereignty, from which Thetis delivered him by bringing Bri 'rens (q.v.) to his aid, and Apollo and Neptune were banished for joining her. Juno was very generally worshipped, and especially at Argos, Olympia, Samos, Carthage, and, later, Rome. Her sacrifices, offered with great solemnity, were generally an ewe lamb and a sow, on the of every month (but never a cow, as she had assumed that form when she fled to Egypt in the war with the Giants). The hawk, goose, and peacock (7iinonia Avis), were sacred to her ; and her favourite flowers were the dittany, poppy, and lily. The colour of the latter had
been changed from purple to white by some of her milk having fallen on it when Jupiter put Hercules to her breast when she was asleep, and some of the milk also formed the Milky Way in the sky. Iris was especially her mes senger, and she could hurl Jupiter's bolts. Juno was protectress of cleanliness, presided over marriage and childbirth, fidelity, and continence. She is represented crowned and enthroned, with a golden sceptre in her right hand, while peacocks stood by her, occasionally a cuckoo perched on her sceptre, and Iris dis played the colours of the rainbow behind her ; or she is borne in a chariot drawn through the air by peacocks. The Juno of the Roman (Matrena, or Remains) was represented veiled as a matron from head to foot, and the consuls on entering office always offered her a solemn sacrifice. Her festivals at Rome were called Yrinenielia, or 7 finenia, and, by the Greeks, Hersea.