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From: Tille <ea...@ch...> - 2009-08-18 13:18:21
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"How tremulous-dazzlingly the wheels sweep Around their axle." Her quiver, well filled with the bow and arrows, hangs at her back, held by the strap bound over her breast.[11] The crescent moon gleams above her brow. The vehicle is the small two-wheeled chariot used among the Romans, scarcely larger than a chair. Only the hind legs of the steeds may be seen, but we fancy them to be two white does. [Footnote 11: It seems odd that with this full quiver the subject should be called by some "Diana's Return from the Chase."] [Illustration: DIANA _Convent of S. Paolo, Parma_] The huntress turns her face earthward, lifting a fluttering veil high in her left hand. It is as if the face of the moon had been hidden behind a cloud which the goddess suddenly draws aside and shows "her fulgent head uncovered, dazzling the beholder's sight." It is with a |