e leg crossed over it, in the
attitude of resting for the restoration of her strength, and not from
indolence. She shall have a crown of poppies, and a sceptre laid on
one side, but not so far distant that she cannot readily take it up
again; and whereas Vigilance has upon her head a cock crowing, so to
her we may give a sitting hen, in order to signify that even when
resting she is active.

"Within the same oval, on the right hand, you shall paint a Moon. Her
figure shall be that of a maiden of about eighteen years, tall and
virginal in aspect, after the likeness of Apollo, with long tresses,
thick and somewhat waved, or wearing on the head one of those caps
that are called Phrygian, wide at the foot and pointed and twisted at
the top, like the Doge's hat, with two wings over the brow that must
hang down and cover the ears, and with two little horns jutting from
the head, as of the crescent moon; or, after Apuleius, with a flat
disk, polished and shining in the manner of a mirror, on the centre of
the brow, which must have on either side of it some serpents and over
it some few ears of corn, and on the head a crown of dittany, after
the Greeks, or of various flowers, after Marcian, or of helichrysum,
after certain others. Her dress some would have reaching down to the
feet, others only to the knees, girt under the breasts and crossed
below the navel after the fashion of a nymph, with a little mantle on
the shoulder clasped over the muscle on the right side, and on the
feet buskins wrought in a pleasing pattern. Pausanias, alluding, I
believe, to Diana, makes her dressed in deerskin; Apuleius, taking her
perchance for Isis, gives her a vestment of the finest veiling in
various colours, white, yellow, and red, and another garment all
black, but bright and shining, dotted with many stars and with a moon
in the centre, and all around it a border with ornaments of fruits and
flowers hanging down after the manner of tassels. Of these vestments,
take whichever looks best. The arms you must make bare, with the
sleeves broad; with the right hand she must hold a lighted torch, and
with the left an unbent bow, which, according to Claudian, is of horn,
and, according to Ovid, of gold. Make it as seems best to you, and
attach the quiver to her shoulders. She is found in Pausanias with two
serpents in the left hand, and in Apuleius she has a gilded vase with
a serpent as a handle, which appears as if swollen with poison, the
foot o