When she appeared before Paris on Mount Ida, she offered him a city. […] In her hands she holds a globe, which sometimes appears placed on a tripod, and then she grasps a scale, or a pair of compasses. […] As a daughter of Astrea, or Justice, she rewarded virtue, while she punished vice with unrelenting severity. […] Echo was so afflicted at the treatment she received from Narcissus, that she pined entirely away, nothing of her remaining but her voice. […] The ancients thought that a blind goddess dispensed or denied riches to whom she pleased; and that she gave to the good or bad equally, without regard to the merit of either, what she pleased.

Where was she born? […] In her hand she holds a globe, which sometimes appears placed on a tripod, and then she grasps a scale, or a pair of compasses. […] Sometimes she appears in a chariot of silver, drawn by hinds. […] As a daughter of Astrea, or Justice, she rewarded virtue, while she punished vice with unrelenting severity. […] Continually lamenting the departure of her spouse, she wept tears of gold; and from her constantly searching for him, she was called Vanadis, goddess of hope.