DIANA. 
“ Tergiminamque Hecatem, tria plies ora Diane.’ 
Paufanias, however, Ramet es [Sige ort >) that — 
cuftom was neither univerfal nor very ancient. Her dif- 
tinguifhing name, vader this. ale ee ones is is Hecate or 
rivia; under which character of the infernal Diana fhe 
oked in pcenirn and reprefented as a Fury, 
holding inftruments of terror in her hands, and grafping 
cords, {words, ferpents, or flaming torches. When fhe is re- 
prefented as the intelligencer that prefides over the moon, 
fhe appears in a car, drawn by ftags, or by does, but more 
commonly by horfes of a soatines| white oar. with a lunar 
crown or crefcent on her fore 
_ Diana’s love of ane induced the Greeks to give her 
other a panther, her chariot being drawn either by two hei- 
fers, or by two horfes of diiferent colours, but this author 
owns that he does not underftand the meaning of thefe 
fymbols. 
When Diana Hata moon, fhe was called Lucina; 
and alfo when fhe was in d by women in child-bed, 
fhe bore the fame copelacer: and ee that of Funo Pro- 
nuba. She had aifo feveral other names 5 fuch as that of 
Trivia, from her triform eae and alfo importing that fhe 
in the crofs ways, the reets, and aa 
s worfhipped, or 
feverity with which fhe punifhed thofe of her companions 
who did not maintain ftrit chaftity, or becaufe the youths 
ible. The names sof ‘Milita, "All, and Anaitis, were given to 
The 
fond of 
ere Diana is named 
ae The oth 
was worlhippe . Di- 
bow and arrows, or by 
her hunting habit, or by the dogs bla accompany her. The 
Diana of Ephefus was reprefented with a great number of 
beafts, and with other fymbols that fignified the earth and 
Cybele, or rather nature herfelf, whom that goddefs repre- 
fented. She is fupported by a couple of deer, and bears on 
Thus the Ephefian ene is 
commonly exhibited upon Greek imperial coins. 
is known by the crefcent on her a and fometinies - the 
bow, or quiver, engraven on on 
Diana had many poracles, in cee ia Se at Ephefus, 
and many others. She had alfo many t dedicated to 
her, of which that at Ephefus was the aie peat and 
efteemed one of the feven wonders of the world, on account of 
‘tioned by Puin 
its ftructure, fize, and furniture, This magnificent edifice,. 
built at the common charge of all the ftates in Afia, was fi- 
tuated at the foot of a mountain, and at the head ors marth, 
which place was chofen, according to Pliny, as being the leatt 
ee to vale ile But it was neceflary, at a very great 
expence, to make drains for conveying the water that came 
down the hill into ce fonts and Cayfter. Philo Byzan- 
tius informs us, that, in tuis wor. 
for a lab Ait 7 
c 
immenfe building, they laid beds of oo 
well rammed, and upon them others of w 
authors have left us fome account of the eeaitaae ish of this 
temple; Vitruvius and Pliny. The firit tells us that it had 
ic order ; which order, h 
fir{ made of eight diameters high. Pliny fays, (lib. xxxVie 
t 220 years elapfed during its conftrudtion; 
{culpture, kc. The a Pallages with a correétion in the 
punQuation, is as follo * Univerfo templo longitudo eft 
CCCCKXX pedum, latitudo ducentorum viginti, columnz 
that it ca rdl fuppofed, that 127 Aftatic kings 
uld panies eac . He therefore pro 
poles t e emendation, which removes the difficulty. 
The ae iereinie: oh their i vevcolummar ene aa 
the ten iteps by which they afcended to the level of the pors- 
tico, will very See ll up the extent of front men- 
y; and if we fuppofe 17 columns in the flank, 
it. will, in like manner, fill up Pliny’s length of the temple 5: 
o columns 
ere very curioufly 
ed on this eeelon, was Cc 
; and the baf-r 
executed by Scopas, the moft famous {culptor of antiquity. 
The altar was adorned with the mafterly {culptures of Praxi-- 
teles, who had, perhaps, feleCted from the favourite legends of 
the place the birth of the divine children of Latona, the 
concealment of A pollo after the flaughter of the Cyclops, and 
as ftill more cfenoe to that fublime produétion hag A 
dern architectur wever, fucceflive emperors, t 
fian, the Maceaonas, and the Roman, case revered i is ne 
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