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50 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Aristaeus: Ovid, Fast. i. 363 sq. ; Vergil, Geor. iv. 317 sq. Hyacinthus : Ovid, Met. x. 185 sq. ; Milton, Death of an Infant 28 For so Apollo, with unweeting hand, Whilom did slay his dearly-loved mate, Young Hyacinth, born on Eurotas' strand, Young Hyacinth, the pride of Spartan land ; But then transformed him to a purple flower, Alack, that so to change thee Winter had no power! Phaethon: Ovid, Met. ii. 34 sq. ; Hyginus, Fab. clii., cliv. ; Swift, Poem Suggested by the Hangings in Dublin Castle : Finding, too late, he can't retire, He proves the real Phaeton, And truly sets the world on fire. Pope, Weeping 13 : The Baby in that sunny sphere So like a Phaeton appears. Shak., Two Gentlemen of Verona iii. 1, 153, King Henry VI. pt. iii. ii. 6, 12. Artemis (Diana) : Vergil, Aen. xi. 582 : Sola contenta Diana Aeternum telorum et virginitatis amorem Intemerata colit. Ovid, Amor. iii. 2, 31, Her. iv. 87, Met. iii. 180 sq. ; Horace, Car. Saec. 1 ; Hyginus, Fab. clxxxi. ; Dryden, The Secular Masque 27 : With horns and with hounds I waken the day, And hie to the woodland walks away : I tuck up my robe, and am buskined soon, And tie to my forehead a wexing moon. Pope, Summer 62 : And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Shak., Midsummer Night's Dream i. 1, 89, Love's Labour's Lost iv. 2, 39, Titus Andronicus i. 1, 316, King Henry IV. pt. i. i. 2, 29 ; Spenser, F. Q. i. vii. 5 ; Chaucer, Knight's Tale 824. Actaeon: Ovid, Met. iii. 174 sq. ; Hyginus, Fab. clxxx.; Shak., Titus Andronicus ii. 3, 63. Orion: Homer, Od. xi. 572; Ovid, Fast. v. 493 sq. ; Vergil, Aen. i. 535 ; Hyginus, Fab. cxcv. ; Cowper, Translation from Milton, To his Father : Orion, soften'd, drops his ardent blade.