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ARTEMIS OR DIANA. 200 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. ants ; her face somewhat manly, her legs bare, well shaped and strong,her feet sometimes bare, and sometimes covered with the cothurnus*or buskin of the ancient hunters. By poets and artists, she is repre-sented as armed with bow and arrows, and has threescore nymphs inher train. She is also represented with a quiver and attended bydogs, and sometimes drawn in a chariot by two white stags or hernymphs. Again, she appears with, wings, holding a lion with one handand a panther in the other; or in a chariot drawn by two horses, onewhite and one black. The representations of this goddess are generally known by thecrescent on her head, by the dogs which attend her, and by herhunting habit. Isis, Diana, and the Bull Apis, are decorated with thecrescent, which announced the commencement of a new moon. Thedogs and buskins more particularly mark the goddess of the chase, asthe crescent was often used by the ancients as an ornament to thefemale

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