Dian'a the Inexorable. (1) She slew Orion with one of her arrows, for daring to make love to her. (2) She changed Actæon into a stag and set her own dogs on him to worry him to death, because he chanced to look upon her while bathing. (3) She shot with her arrows the six sons and six daughters of Niobé, because the fond mother said she was happier than Latona, who had only two children.
Dianae non movenda numina.
Horace, Epode, xvii.
Diana the Second of Salmantin, a pastoral romance by Gil Polo.
"We will preserve that book," said the cure, "as carefully as if Apollo himself had been its author."—Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. i. 6 (1605).
Diana (the Temple of), at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of antiquity, was set on fire by Herostratos to immortalize his name.
Diana of the Stage, Mrs. Anne Brace-girdle (1663-1748).
Dian'a's Foresters, "minions of the moon," "Diana's knights," etc., highwaymen.
Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king,
let not us that are "squires of the night's body"