. Mitologia greca e romana. ARTEMIS O DIANA. 201 questi poeti si rinfisarono di tre teste e di tre corpi. Ha invocato wasfrequentemente negli incantamenti, come l'infernale di-ana, e poi appare morelike una Furia che una celestialgodessa. Come la Diana celeste, il sheis descritto da Statio come statura maestosa; e, nel concilio degli dei, appare con l'arco e il fremito sulle spalle. Cicero descrive astatue rispondendo a questa de-iscrizione, che un tempo apparteneva a Scipio Africanus. Nella scultura antica, Dianais spesso rappresentato come de-scening con lui

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. Grecian and Roman mythology . gedians. ARTEMIS OR DIANA. 201 resented by these poets as hav-ing three heads, and sometimeswith three bodies. She wasfrequently invoked in enchant-ments, as being the infernal Di-ana, and then appears morelike a Fury than a celestialgoddess. As the celestial Diana, sheis described by Statius as ofmajestic stature; and, in thecouncil of the gods, appearswith the bow and quiver on hershoulders. Cicero describes astatue answering to this de-scription, that once belonged toScipio Africanus. In antique sculpture, Dianais frequently represented as de-scending with her head veiledto a shepherd who is sleeping. This fable might have originated froman eclipse of the moon; if so, her veil would be the most significantand characteristic part of her costume. The ancients represented deathunder the symbol of the sleeping Endymion, and upon marble coffins, enclosing the ashes of youths who had fallen early into the tomb, Di-ana is to be seen descending from on high to the lips of the happyslumberer. The inhabitants of Taurica were particularly attached to the worshipof this goddess, and cruelly offered on her altars all strangers whowere shipwrecked on their coasts. In Asia her temple was served bya priest who had always murdered his predecessor, and the Lacedaemo-nians yearly offered her victims till the age of Lycurgos, who changedthis barbarous custom to that of flagellation. Her most famous temple was that at Ephesus. There the statue ofthe goddess was regarded with peculiar veneration ; and was believedby the vulgar to have fallen from the skies. It was never changed, though the temple had been more than once restored. This rude ob-ject of primeval worship was a block of wood, said by some to be of 202 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. beech or elm—by others, cedar, ebony, or vine, and attesting its verygreat antiquit} by the fashion in which it was formed. It was carvedin the similitude of Diana, not as the elegant huntress, but as an Egyp-tian h

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