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Diana

Diana, an Italian goddess, chiefly of the Sabine and Latin races, afterwards identified with Artemis of the Greek mythology, whose bow and other attributes she assumed. The name is generally taken to be a feminine form of Janus. Horace, in his Odes, alludes to her threefold character of Hecate, Diana, and Phoebe, and calls her "Diva triformis," and speaks of her as presiding over maternity in her character as Lucina. She is not really identical with "Diana of the Ephesians," who was probably the same as Cybele.