Diva triformis: as Luna, Diana, Hecate. Cf. Catull., supra; Verg. Aen. 4.511, tergeminamque Hecaten, tria virginis ora Dianae; Ov. Met. 7.94, per sacra triformis |ille deae. Her image at the crossways had three faces. Ov. Fast. 1.141, ora vides Hecates in tres vertentia partes,| servet ut in ternas compita secta vias. Modern poetry variously symbolizes it: 'Goddess whom all gods love with threefold heart,| Being treble in thy divided deity' (Swinb. Atalanta, mit.) ; 'Thro' Heaven I roll my lucid moon along;| I shed in Hell o'er my pale people peace,| On Earth,' etc. (Browning, Artemis Prologuizes); 'Goddess triform I own thy triple spell: | Queen of my earth, Queen too of my heaven and hell' (Lowell); 'With borrowed light her countenance triform| Hence fills,' etc. (Milton). Cf. the quaint old Latin distich, Terret, lustrat, agit, Proserpina, luna, Diana,| ima, suprema, feras, sceptro, fulgore, sagitta.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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