Fortuna Minor

[sdi]

Juno then went to Gargarus, the topmost peak of Ida, and Jove, driver of the clouds, set eyes upon her. As soon as he did so he became inflamed with the same passionate desire for her that he had felt when they had first enjoyed each other's embraces. [...] And Jove said, Juno, [...] let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another. Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself. [...] She exclaimed, What are you talking about? Would you have us enjoy one another here on the top of Mount Ida, where everything can be seen? [...] And Jove answered, Juno, you need not be afraid that either god or man will see you, for I will enshroud both of us in such a dense golden cloud, that the very sun for all his bright piercing beams shall not see through it. With this the son of Saturn caught his wife in his embrace. [...]

[Iliad, Homer, tr. Samuel Butler]

[Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida, James Barry]