{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo40.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo40.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo40.htm","text":"Hear me, Jove's daughter, celebrated queen,\n Bacchian and Titan, of a noble mien:\nIn darts rejoicing and on all to shine,\n Torch-bearing Goddess, Dictynna divine;\n O'er births presiding, and thyself a maid, 5 \u00a05\n To labour-pangs imparting ready aid:\n Dissolver of the zone and wrinkl'd care,\n Fierce huntress, glorying in the Sylvan war:\n Swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skill'd,\n Wandering by night, rejoicing in the field: 10\n Of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind,\n Illustrious d\u00e6mon, nurse of human kind:\n Immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell,\n 'Tis thine; blest maid, on woody hills to dwell:\n Foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight, 15\n In endless youth who flourish fair and bright.\n O, universal queen, august, divine,\n A various form, Cydonian pow'r, is thine:\n Dread guardian Goddess, with benignant mind\n Auspicious, come to mystic rites inclin'd 20\n Give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear,\n Send gentle Peace, and Health with lovely hair,\n And to the mountains drive Disease and Care.\n166:5 Ver. 5.] O'er births presiding. In the original, \u03bb\u03bf\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03b1: and Proclus, in Plat. Theol. p. 403. observes that this epithet is given to Diana by theologians, because she is the inspector of natural progression and generation.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XXXV: To Diana","type":"page"}