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[124] ἀγανοῖς. See on Od. 3.280. It should be noticed here that an arrow shot in anger is still called “ἀγανὸν βέλος”, showing that the ‘painlessness’ of the death, and not the mereiful character of the visitation, is to be thought of. The death of Orion by the shafts of Artemis violates the generally observed rule by which the death of men is compassed by Phoebus; and those of women only, by Artemis. Here however Artemis is not acting in her capacity of Death-goddess; but slays Orion from jealousy.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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