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ARRIAN 



Chap. XXXII. of a courser without the favour of some god.6 For such a 

 blessmg, then, he should sacrifice to Diana Venatrix.'^ He 



Ovid. Metam. 

 L. VII. 754. 



Attic. L. I. 



C. XIX. 



Coluthi Rapt. 

 Helena, vs. 32. 



32nd of the German editor, from which chapter the former seeras to have been most 

 unnecessarily separated by Holstein, or whoever first divided the Cynegetiius into 

 sections, affixing to each a table of contents. 



In accordance with Arrian's notion, the fabulous greyhound of the suspicious Ce- 

 phalus is conceived, in the imagination of the poet, to have been bestowed on the 

 virtuous Procris by the Goddess of the Chase, with the high character of pre-eminent 

 speed : 



quern cum sua traderet illi 

 Cynthia, ' currendo superabit,' dixeral, ' omnes.' 



7. 'ApTffiiSi 'AypoT4p(}. This title of the sylvan goddess is variously derived by 

 etymologists. Scheffer (-lElian. V. H. L. ii. c. 25.) would have her ladyship so 

 called from Agr£e in Attica — x'^p'^ov''AypaL Ka\ovfxevov, the scene of her first essay in 

 hunting on arriving from Delos. Aia^aai 5e rhv Eihiffahv, says Pausanias, xwptoi' 

 "AypcLi KaKovjxivov, /col vabs 'AypoTfpas iarlv 'AprfniSos, k. t. X. But Perizonias 

 objects to Scheffer's derivation, and also to that anh rrjs &ypas, d venaiione, consi- 

 dering 'AypoTepa rather to signify rustica, in agris agens. If &ypa, venatio, be the 

 rtiot of the title, to the same may probably be referred the titular epithet by which 

 Apollo is connected with the chase, by Pausanias in Atticis, (L. i. c. xli.) 'Aypalos : 

 unless the Attic Agrae would here afford a more ready solution. But the true deri- 

 vation of 'Ayporepa is to be sought in aypSs. See Etyraologicon Magnum. 



From whatever source derived, it is sufl^cient for our purpose that the epithet is 

 commonly applied to her in the character of " Dea Venatrix," (Ovid. Met. L. ii. 

 454.) — " Dea sylvarum," (Ovid. Met. L. iii. 163.) — " ssevis iuimica virgo — bel- 

 luis," (Hor. Od. xii. L. i. 22.) — as presiding over woods, and delighting in hunting. 

 It is so used in the Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes, 



rdf t' iv opiffi Spvoy6vot- 

 ai KSpav aeiaar^ "Ap- 

 reniv 'Ayporepav : 



and in the Rape of Helen of Coluthus, 



oiiSe KcuTLyvrirri Arirw'ias 'Air(5A\wi'os 

 "Aprefiis riTlfi7)(Te, Koi ayportprj irep iovcra. 



To coursers it must be a mighty consolation to know that, by virtue of this distinc- 

 tion, the goddess is ominous of good when seen by them as a night-phantom ; at least 

 Oneirocrit. so says the dream-interpreter of Ephesus, the fortune-telling Artemidorus — Kvvrjyo7s 

 L, II. c. XXXV, jxaXiffTU avfx(pipu Si^ tV 'Ayporipav. 



