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[15] notho es dicta lumine Luna: i.e. she is called Luna from lumen, even though the light is not her own; cf. Hor. Carm. 4.6.38crescentem face Noctilucam” ; Hor. CS 35siderum regina bicornis, audi, Luna, puellas; Lucr. 5.575luna notho fertur loca lumine lustrans.” So Diana as the huntress and birth-helper, as Luna, and as Trivia (= Proserpina), is the threefold goddess; cf. Hor. Carm. 3.22.4diva triformis” ; Verg. A. 4.511tergeminam Hecaten, tria virginis ora Dianae.


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