6. They have a separate and independent power to punish those who offend them, without any need of an appeal to Jupiter, or to the Olympian Court.
7. They are admitted, exclusively, or in common with Juno only, to a share in certain peculiar mythological functions of Jupiter himself.
8. They have a power of making revelations to men, through signs or portents significant of the future.
9. They have a general power of extraordinary or miraculous action upon nature, to which scarcely any other deity approaches.
10. The peculiar and mysterious relation of Apollo, with his sister Diana, to death, cannot be understood or accounted for from mythological data.
11. In the exercise of their power over nature, Minerva and Apollo are, more than other deities, exempt from the need of resort to symbolic actions by way of cooperative means.
III. Points of distinction with regard to their personal characters.
1. Their moral tone is far superior to that of the Olympian Court in general.
2. They are both peculiarly associated with Jupiter in the original administration of Providential functions, and are particularly concerned with the highest, most ethical, and most inward parts of them.