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ARTEMIS. 143
either case the bright morning land, and her purity is that CHAP,
of Athene and Hestia. Over these three deities alone / .
Aphrodite has no power. Love cannot touch the maiden
whose delight is in the violet tints of dawn or in the
arrows which she sends forth with never failing precision, 1
and which seal the doom, while they are given to avenge the
wrongs of Prokris. Like Phoibos, she has the power of life
and death ; she can lessen or take away the miseries and
plagues which she brings upon men, and those who honour
her are rich in flocks and herds and reach a happy old age.
Prom those who neglect her she exacts a fearful penalty
and the Kalydonian boar ravages the fields of Oineus only
because he had forgotten to include her among the deities to
whom he offered sacrifice. 2 In a word the colours may be
paler, but her features and form generally are those of her
glorious brother. With him she takes delight in song, 3 and
as Phoibos overcomes the Python, so is she the slayer of
Tityos. 4
It seems unnecessary to draw any sharp distinction be- The Ar-
a ian
tween the Arkadian and the Delian Artemis. If she is no i> eiian
longer the mere reflection of Phoibos, she still calls herself a Artemis.
child of Leto, 5 and appears as the glorious morning roving
through the heaven before the birth of the sun. This broad-
spreading light is represented by her wanderings among the
glens and along the mountain summits of Arkadia. Like
Athene and Aphrodite, she belongs to or springs from the
running waters, and she demands from Zeus an attendant
troop of fifty Okeanid and twenty Amnisiad, or river,
nymphs. 6 With these she chases her prey on the heights
1 irapQeuos lox^atpa. aprz[j.7}s, and regards thp epithet as de-
2
3ir. (J rote remarks that in the hunt noting- her unsullied purity as well as
which follows for the destruction of the her physical vigour. Her kindly and
boar, Artemis, who is sometimes con- indignant aspects are with him the
founded even with her attendant varying, yet constantly recurring, effects
nymphs, reappears in the form of Ata- produced by the moon on the phenolante.
Hist. Gr. i. 76. The name of mena of the seasons, and, as was sup-
Camilla, the counterpart of Atalante in posed, of human life. For the Ephesian
the JEncid, is, according to M. Maury,
that of a Gallic divinity, being the
Artemis, see p. 66.
4 Kallim. Hymn to Artemis, 110.
5
lb. nal yap iyw ArjTaias eifii. She
feminine form of Camulus (Camillus).
Croyanccs et Legcndcs de VAnt ignite, desires to be worshipped under many
229, et. seq. names, that she may not need to fear
3 Hymn to Aphrodite, 19. Preller, the rivalry of Apollon, 7.
Gr. Myth. i. 228, adopts the explanation 6 lb. 20, &c.
which connects her name with the word