Note IF — 1820 (continued 3)
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The gods in the golden age were wishing to abide on earth, but as degeneracy ensued, one by one they left. Astræa or Justice was the last to depart—
. . . Virgo caede madentes, Ultima coelestum, terras Astraea reliquit. Ovid, Metamorphoses, i. 149.
See also Virgil, Georgics, ii. 473.—Ed.