The radiant veil her sacred fingers wove, Floats in rich waves, and spreads the court of Jove. Her father’s warlike robe her limbs invest.[116] In which verses by the veil which she wove, and to which she gave subsistence by her intellections, her intellectual wisdom is signified. But by the warlike robe of Jupiter we must understand her demiurgic providence, which immutably takes care of mundane natures, and prepares more divine beings always to have dominion in the world. Hence also, I think Homer represents her as an associate in battle with the Greeks against the Barbarians; just as Plato here relates that she was an associate with the Greeks against the inhabitants of the Atlantic island; in order that every where more intellectual and divine natures may rule over such as are more irrational and vile. For Mars also is a friend to war and contrarieties, but with a separation and division more adapted to the things themselves. Minerva however, connects contrariety, and illuminates the subjects of her government with union. Hence likewise she is said to be philopolemic. For, Strife, fighting, war, she always loves. And she is a friend to war indeed, because she is allotted the summit of separation; but she is a lover of contrarieties, because these are in a certain respect congregated through this goddess, in consequence of better natures having dominion. On this account likewise, the ancients co-arranged Victory with Minerva. If therefore, these things are rightly asserted, she is philosophic indeed, as being demiurgic intelligence, and as separate and immaterial wisdom. Hence also, she is called Metis by the Gods. But she is philopolemic, as connecting the contrarieties in wholes, and as an untamed and inflexible deity. On this account likewise, she preserves Bacchus undefiled, but vanquishes the giants in conjunction with her father. She too alone shakes the ægis, without waiting for the mandate of Jupiter. She also hurls the javelin, Shook by her arm, the massy javelin bends, Huge, ponderous, strong! that when her fury burns Whole ranks of heroes tames and overturns.[117] Again, she is _Phosphoros_, as every way extending intellectual light; the _Saviour_, as establishing every partial intellect in the total intellections of her father; _Ergane_, or the artificer, as presiding over demiurgic works. Hence the theologist Orpheus says, that the father produced her, That she the queen might be of mighty works. But she is _Calliergos_, or the beautiful fabricator, as connecting by beauty all the works of the father; a _Virgin_, as exerting an undefiled and unmingled purity; and _Aigiochos_, or ægis-bearing, as moving the whole of fate, and being the leader of its productions.