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THE CONTENTS OF THE TEMPLE. 295
country, they were enjoined by an oracle to take
from Diana of Epliesus, a guide for the voyage they
were about to undertake. Repairing, therefore,
to Ephesus, to inquire of the goddess how they
could conform to the dictates of the oracle, Diana
they say appeared in a dream to Aristarche, one of
the principal women of Ephesus, and ordered her
to depart with the PkocEeans, taking with her one
of the consecrated statues in her temple."1 In
Apuleius, we read of the small silver statues of the
goddess being brought out and placed on the steps
of the temple, for the people to kiss at the conclu-
sion of the festival.
The fact of there being several statues of Diana
in her temple, is also expressly stated by Cassar in
his Commentaries.3 The statue taken to Massilia
was probably one of the usual form ; but that the
temple also contained statues of Diana in many
other characters, would appear from the coins of
the city, which represent Diana Venatrix,3 or Diana
Lucifera, quite as frequently as Diana Ephesia.
Of the former description, she is sometimes repre-
sented as taking a dart from her quiver ; as
drawing a bow ; with a javelin ; with a patera and
spear ; running, and darting a javelin ; with a
javelin on her shoulder, and carrying the skin
1 Strabo, p. 179. 2 See page 342.
3 " Venatrix Ephesium virgo."—(Prudentius, Oral. cont. Symac.
i. 361.)
country, they were enjoined by an oracle to take
from Diana of Epliesus, a guide for the voyage they
were about to undertake. Repairing, therefore,
to Ephesus, to inquire of the goddess how they
could conform to the dictates of the oracle, Diana
they say appeared in a dream to Aristarche, one of
the principal women of Ephesus, and ordered her
to depart with the PkocEeans, taking with her one
of the consecrated statues in her temple."1 In
Apuleius, we read of the small silver statues of the
goddess being brought out and placed on the steps
of the temple, for the people to kiss at the conclu-
sion of the festival.
The fact of there being several statues of Diana
in her temple, is also expressly stated by Cassar in
his Commentaries.3 The statue taken to Massilia
was probably one of the usual form ; but that the
temple also contained statues of Diana in many
other characters, would appear from the coins of
the city, which represent Diana Venatrix,3 or Diana
Lucifera, quite as frequently as Diana Ephesia.
Of the former description, she is sometimes repre-
sented as taking a dart from her quiver ; as
drawing a bow ; with a javelin ; with a patera and
spear ; running, and darting a javelin ; with a
javelin on her shoulder, and carrying the skin
1 Strabo, p. 179. 2 See page 342.
3 " Venatrix Ephesium virgo."—(Prudentius, Oral. cont. Symac.
i. 361.)