CHAP. Xril. CHARACTERS OF DIANA. 281 



enmity of Typlio.* But Juvenal has banished her 

 from the Pantheon of Egypt : "Oppidatota canem 

 venerantur, 7iemo Dianam," not, as the learned 

 Prichard supposes, because " her worship had been 

 discontinued, or had sunk into obscurity, before 

 Egypt fell under the Roman yoke," but because 

 Juvenal, in common with so many other persons 

 who visited the country, was ignorant of the na- 

 ture of its religion. The Greeks, indeed, gave to 

 Diana three different characters. As the Moon, 

 she was Lucina ; as Goddess of the Chace, Diana ; 

 as a Deity of the lower regions, Proserpine or 

 Hecate. Hence the poets styled her ^'trifor- 

 mis/' and they sometimes represented her with 

 three heads t, — that on the right being of a horse, 

 that on the left of a dog, and that in the middle 

 of a wild boar, — though Pausaniast thinks this 

 custom neither ancient nor universal. But the 

 form and attributes of nearly all the Greek Deities 

 were very uncertain ; and Cicero has shown how 

 confused were their genealogies and origin. He 

 even confesses that the mode of representing them 

 depended on tlie caprice of painters and fabulists §, 

 who committed the palpable absurdity of repre- 

 senting tlie Gods subject to anger, lust, and other 

 bad passions, and exposed to tlie infirmities of 

 human natiu'e. 



* " Fele soror Phoebi . . . latiiit . . . Cyllenins ibidis alis." Ovid. 

 Met. lib. V. .3.^0. 



f Virg. /En. lib. iv. ill. 



" Tergeiiiinamque Ilccatcni, tria virgiuis ora Diana?." 



t Pans, in Corinth, c. 30. 



J Cicero (Nat. Door.) says, " Nos Dcos onincs cii facie novinuis, 

 qua pictores fictoresrjue voluerunt." 



