DIANA, di-a'-na, called ARTEMIS, ar'-tbn-is, by the Greeks, the goddess of hunting, seas daughter of Jupiter and Latina (q.v.), and twin-sister of Apollo, and was therefore iden tified with the moon (Dhabi') ; she devoted herself to hunting, and received from Jupiter, as attendants, sixty of the Ocean/des and twenty other nymphs, who, like herself, were vowed to chastity. Diana is represented with a bent bow and quiver, a crescent on her head, attended with dogs, and sometimes dean n hi a chariot by two white stags ; she was taller than her attendants by a head, her face and figure were masculine, the legs bare, and the feet covered with a buskin ; at Ephesus she was represented with a great number of breasts, signifying the fertility of the earth. Diana was called Dficina or Ilithyia when in yoked by women in travail (see JUNO PRO NUBA), and trivia when worshipped in the cross-ways, where her statues were erected, and, when identified with the Moon and Pro serpina or Hecate, Triformis (whence on some of her statues are three heads—a horse's, a dog's, a boar's), three characters well ex pressed in the verses- Terret, lustrat, agit, Proserpina, Luna, Diana, Ima, suprama, fe'ras, sceptro, fulgOre, sd gitta.
Diana was also called AgrWra (the huntress), Orthia (from Mount Oithium), Taurica,Delia, Cynthia, Arida, &c., and was identified with the Egyptian his. When Typhon warred with the gods, Diana transformed herself into a cat (see SUBASTIS); she was the goddess of Chastity, and punished many who offered her offence (but see ENDYMION, PAN, ORION); she had a famous temple at Ephesus (q. v.), one of the seven wonders of the world, and oracles at Ephesus, and in Egypt and Cilicia ; her tem ple at Aricia was served by a priest who had always murdered his predecessor, and, before Lycurgus's age, the Spartans annually offered her human victims, and the inhabitants of Tauris offered on her altars shipwrecked strangers. Her usual offerings were goats, white kids, boars, or oxen ; and the poppy and dittany were sacred to her.