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ASYLUM OF TUE TEJirLE, ETC. 333
and we find Lycurgus particularly enjoining his coun-
trymen not to hazard an engagement till the full of
the moon, " knowing that everything was governed
by her, but that her power was not so great at her
wane or waxing." l
Chandler has published an inscription,3 by which
it appears that one entire month was set apart to her
service, and celebrated with peculiar rites:—" To
the Ephesian Diana :—Inasmuch as it is notorious
that not only among the Ephesians, but also
everywhere among the Greek nations, temples are
dedicated to her, on account of her plain mani-
. festations of herself; and that moreover in token
of the great veneration paid her, a month is called
after her name, by us 'AfTE[j.io-ia>va, by the Mace-
donians and other Greek nations, 'Aprs/xia-iov, in
which, general assemblies and hieromenia are cele-
brated : now, inasmuch as these sacred honours
are not observed in the holy city, the nurse of its
own, the Ephesian goddess; the people of Ephesus
deem it proper that the whole month called by her
name, be sacred, and set apart for the goddess ;
and have determined by this decree that the
observation of it by them be improved. Therefore,
it is enacted, that in the whole month Artemision
the days be holy, and nothing be attended to in
them but the yearly feastings, the Artemisial
panegyrics, and the hieromenia; the entire month
1 Lucian. cle Aslrol.
2 Chandler, Insc. Ant. p. 13, No. xxxvi. ; 'Travels, i. 167.
and we find Lycurgus particularly enjoining his coun-
trymen not to hazard an engagement till the full of
the moon, " knowing that everything was governed
by her, but that her power was not so great at her
wane or waxing." l
Chandler has published an inscription,3 by which
it appears that one entire month was set apart to her
service, and celebrated with peculiar rites:—" To
the Ephesian Diana :—Inasmuch as it is notorious
that not only among the Ephesians, but also
everywhere among the Greek nations, temples are
dedicated to her, on account of her plain mani-
. festations of herself; and that moreover in token
of the great veneration paid her, a month is called
after her name, by us 'AfTE[j.io-ia>va, by the Mace-
donians and other Greek nations, 'Aprs/xia-iov, in
which, general assemblies and hieromenia are cele-
brated : now, inasmuch as these sacred honours
are not observed in the holy city, the nurse of its
own, the Ephesian goddess; the people of Ephesus
deem it proper that the whole month called by her
name, be sacred, and set apart for the goddess ;
and have determined by this decree that the
observation of it by them be improved. Therefore,
it is enacted, that in the whole month Artemision
the days be holy, and nothing be attended to in
them but the yearly feastings, the Artemisial
panegyrics, and the hieromenia; the entire month
1 Lucian. cle Aslrol.
2 Chandler, Insc. Ant. p. 13, No. xxxvi. ; 'Travels, i. 167.