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294 TEMPLE OP DIANA.
whatever ceremonies thou art reverenced, succour
me in my extreme distress.' "
To this the goddess answered :—
" Lucius, thy prayers have reached me; moved
by thy supplications, I come to thee, I am Nature,
the mother of all things."1
We are not to suppose that this was the only
statue of the divinity within the Temple : that it
was customary to have more than one statue of the
divinity in a temple, is evidenced by the Temple
of Diana at Aulis, " which contains two stone
statues; one of these holds a torch, and the other
is in the attitude of one shooting an arrow: "2
but this is particularly shown in the account we
have of the Temple of Diana at Massilia, (Mar-
seilles). " This city was founded by the PhocaBans,
and had in its citadel the temple called the Ephe-
sium ... .so named because it was conse-
crated to Diana of Ephesus. They narrate that
when the Phocasans were about to quit their
1 Apuleius, Met. xi. This is the very same title by which we
find Diana Ephesia distinguished on several ancient statues. In
Montfaucon are two engravings of statues, bearing the following
inscription :—" Nature, full of variety, the mother of all things."
—(Mont. Ant. Exp. i. p. 158.) " The name of Diana is supposed to
come from DIVIATSTA., the feminine according to the old Etrus-
can idiom of DIVUS, and therefore signifying the goddess, or
general female personification of the divine nature, which the moon
was considered to be in the ancient planetary worship, which pre-
ceded the symbolic."—(Knight, Enquiry Symb. § 142.)
2 Paus. ix. 19.
whatever ceremonies thou art reverenced, succour
me in my extreme distress.' "
To this the goddess answered :—
" Lucius, thy prayers have reached me; moved
by thy supplications, I come to thee, I am Nature,
the mother of all things."1
We are not to suppose that this was the only
statue of the divinity within the Temple : that it
was customary to have more than one statue of the
divinity in a temple, is evidenced by the Temple
of Diana at Aulis, " which contains two stone
statues; one of these holds a torch, and the other
is in the attitude of one shooting an arrow: "2
but this is particularly shown in the account we
have of the Temple of Diana at Massilia, (Mar-
seilles). " This city was founded by the PhocaBans,
and had in its citadel the temple called the Ephe-
sium ... .so named because it was conse-
crated to Diana of Ephesus. They narrate that
when the Phocasans were about to quit their
1 Apuleius, Met. xi. This is the very same title by which we
find Diana Ephesia distinguished on several ancient statues. In
Montfaucon are two engravings of statues, bearing the following
inscription :—" Nature, full of variety, the mother of all things."
—(Mont. Ant. Exp. i. p. 158.) " The name of Diana is supposed to
come from DIVIATSTA., the feminine according to the old Etrus-
can idiom of DIVUS, and therefore signifying the goddess, or
general female personification of the divine nature, which the moon
was considered to be in the ancient planetary worship, which pre-
ceded the symbolic."—(Knight, Enquiry Symb. § 142.)
2 Paus. ix. 19.