to betray a crime by one's looks! She scarce raises her eyes from
the ground, nor, as she used to do, does she walk by the side of the
Goddess, nor is she the foremost in the whole company; but she is
silent, and by her blushes she gives signs of her injured honor. And
Diana, but {for the fact}, that she is a virgin, might have perceived
her fault by a thousand indications; the Nymphs are said to have
perceived it.
The horns of the Moon were {now} rising again in her ninth course, when
the hunting Goddess, faint from her brother's flames, lighted on a cool
grove, out of which a stream ran, flowing with its murmuring noise, and
borne along the sand worn fine {by its action}. When she had approved of
the spot, she touched the surface of the water with her foot; and
commending it as well, she says, "All overlookers are far off; let us
bathe our bodies, with the stream poured over them." She of
Parrhasia[63] blushed; they all put off their clothes; she alone sought
{an excuse for} delay. Her garment was removed as she hesitated, which
being put off, her fault was exposed with her naked body. Cynthia said
to her, in confusion, and endeavoring to conceal her stomach with her
hands, "Begone afar hence! and pollute not the sacred springs;" and she
ordered her to leave her train.
[Footnote 60: _Trivia._--Ver. 416. This was an epithet of Diana,
as presiding over and worshipped in the places where three roads
met, which were called 'trivia.' Being known as Diana on earth,
the Moon in the heavens, and Proserpine in the infernal regions,
she was represented at these places with three faces; those of a
horse, a dog, and a female; the latter being in the middle.]
[Footnote 61: _Dictynna._--Ver. 441. Diana was so called from the
Greek word +diktus+, 'a net,' which was used by her for the
purposes of hunting.]
[Footnote 62: _There was no deceit._--Ver. 446. Clarke translates
'sensit abesse dolos,' 'she was convinced there was no roguery in
the case.']
[Footnote 63: _She of Parrhasia._--Ver. 460. Calisto is so called
from Parrhasia, a region of Arcadia. Parrhasius was the name of a
mountain, a grove, and a city of that country and was derived from
the name of Parrhasus, a son of Lycaon.]
FABLES VI AND VII. [II.466-550]
Juno, being jealous that Calisto has attracted Jupiter, transforms her
into a Bear. Her son, Arcas, not recognizing his mother in that sh
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