r bow, in her right hand. It is thus she makes her appearance
in several of her statues, and it is thus the Roman poets describe her,
particularly in the epithets they give this goddess, in the use of which
they are so happy that they often bring the idea of whole figures of her
into your mind by a single word. The statues of this Di{=a}na were very
frequent in woods: she was represented there in all the different ways
they could think of; sometimes as hunting, sometimes as bathing, and
sometimes as resting herself after her fatigue. The height of Di{=a}na's
stature is frequently marked out in the poets, and that, generally, by
comparing her with her nymphs.

Another great character of Di{=a}na is that under which she is
represented as the intelligence which presides over the planet of the
moon; in which she is depicted in her car as directing that planet. Her
figure under this character is frequently enough to be met with on gems
and medals, which generally exhibit her with a lunar crown, or crescent
on her forehead, and sometimes as drawn by stags, sometimes by does,
but, more commonly than either, by horses. The poets speak of her
chariot and her horses; they agree with the artists in giving her but
two, and show, that the painters of old generally drew them of a perfect
white color.

A third remarkable way of representing Di{=a}na was with three bodies;
this is very common among the ancient figures of the goddess, and it is
hence the poets call her the triple, the three-headed, and the
three-bodied Di{=a}na. Her distinguishing name under this triple
appearance is Hec{)a}te, or Trivia; a goddess frequently invoked in
enchantments, and fit for such black operations; for this is the
infernal Di{=a}na, and as such is represented with the characteristics
of a fury, rather than as one of the twelve great celestial deities: all
her hands hold instruments of terror, and generally grasp either cords,
or swords, or serpents, or fire-brands.

There are various conjectures concerning the name _Hec{)a}te_, which is
supposed to come from a Greek word signifying an _hundred_, either
because an hundred victims at a time used to be offered to her, or else
because by her edicts the ghosts of those who die without burial, wander
an hundred years upon the banks of the Styx. Mythologists say that
Hec{)a}te is the _order_ and _force_ of the Fates, who obtained from the
divine power that influence which they have over human bodies; that