The Translation.
[59] And both hurry, and their clothes having been wrapped to their breasts, they move their having been skilled arms, with the eagerness deceiving the work. [61] There, purple, which felt the Tyrian bronze, is woven, and subtle shades of a small separation [are woven]; just as the rainbows are accustomed to dye the long sky by means of vast curves, with the sun having been thrust through after the rain; in which, when a thousand different colors shine, the transition itself nevertheless escapes the notice of the watching eyes: thoroughly so much so, what she touches, it is the same, nevertheless the finals are set apart. [68] There, and lasting gold is spun in threads and an ancient story is woven in the web. [70] Athena portrays the hill of Mars in the Athenian citadel and the old strife about the name of the land. [72] Twice six deities sit in high venerable importance, with Jupiter sitting in the middle; her own appearance inscribes each one of the gods: the image of Jupiter is regal; she makes the god of the sea to stand and to strike the rough stones by means of a long trident, and the sea to spring out from the middle of the wound of the rock, by means of which pledge he might claim the city; but she gives a shield to herself, she gives a spear of a sharp point to herself, she gives a helmet to her head, the chest is protected by the aegis, she represents the ground, having been struck from her own spear, that produces a seed of a graying olive tree with fruits; and that the gods are astonished: the end of the work is victory. [82] Nevertheless, so that the rival might understand by means of examples of praise, what punishment [the envious] might expect on behalf of such frenzied daring, she adds four battles in four parts, with their own clear color, distinct with small figurines: one corner holds the Thracian Rhodopes and the Haemus, now frosty mountains, once mortal bodies, who yielded the names of the highest gods to themselves; another corner holds the miserable fate of the mother (queen) of the Pygmies, and part holds: Juno, having conquered this (queen) in contest, orders her to be a crane and to declare war on her own people; and she decorates Antigone, having once dared to compete with the great consort of Jupiter, whom the regal Juno turned into a bird, neither Ilion nor her father Laomedon were of use to her, even with wings having been taken up, the shining white stork herself approves with herself by means of a clattering beak; which corner remains alone, has the childless Cinyras; and he, embracing the steps of the temple, the limbs of his own born, seems to cry, lying by the rock. [100] She surrounded the outer edges with olive wreaths of peace (this is the bound) and she makes the end of her work with her own tree.
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