It was a wand, or stick, round which serpents were twined. […] The furies soon learned Juno’s errand; and Tisiphone, having heard what she had to say, shaking her head, to throw back the serpents which hung over her face, replied, “Goddess, you shall be obeyed. […] As soon as Juno had left the murky abode of the Furies, the cruel Tisiphone arrayed herself in a bloodstained robe, fastened round the waist by a coiling serpent, seized her flaming torch, and, being followed by her terrific attendants, Fear, Horror, Grief, and Frenzy, went forth to execute her commission. […] Juno found a hideous serpent, hatched in the mud of the Nile, called the Python, and she employed him to torment Latona. […] Some excellent physician might have found a remedy for it; and then the disease was called a serpent, and the healer a god Apollo was the god of health, and the patron of must and poetry.