The generality of their philosophers supposed Jupiter the greatest of the Gods, to be the purest air, the æther: and Juno his wife, the grosser air which surrounds the earth. […] She has always a smiling countenance; and one foot lightly touching the earth, while the other sports in air. […] She was represented as flying in air, holding a crown, a branch of palm, a globe; and sometimes she was depicted as an eagle. […] The right arm of the victim was then cut off, thrown up into the air, and suffered to remain on the spot where it fell. […] So mildly firm their placid air.