Examples of using "Minerva" in a sentence and their english translations:
This is a statue of Minerva.
"All hopes on Pallas, since the war begun, / all trust was stayed."
"Some with wonder and dismay / the maid Minerva's fatal gift survey."
So our vows we pay / to Pallas, famed in arms, whose welcome cheered the way.
But lo! the serpents to Tritonia's seat / glide from their victim, till the shrine they gain, / and, coiled beside the goddess, at her feet, / behind her sheltering shield with gathered orbs retreat.
Fresh blows the breeze, and broader grows the bay, / and on the cliffs is seen Minerva's fane.
"Tall and great, / with huge oak-timbers mounting to the skies, / they build the monster, lest it pass the gate, / and like Palladium stand, the bulwark of the State."
Dragged by her tresses from Minerva's fane, / Cassandra comes, the Priameian maid, / stretching to heaven her burning eyes in vain, / her eyes, for bonds her tender hands constrain.
Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer.