But, after having described the supreme and transcendant dignity of Jupiter, he at once proceeds to place Pallas before every other deity without exception[249]:
Unde nîl majus generatur ipso:
Nec viget quicquam simile aut secundum;
Proximos illi tamen occupavit
Pallas honores.
I will now pass on to consider the remaining vestiges of original tradition perceivable in Homer.
The Diana of Homer.
Like the Moon to the Sun, an analogy maintained by their respective assumption of the two characters in the later mythology, Diana is a reflection, and in most respects a faint reflection, of Apollo.
She was worshipped, says Müller[250], in the character of ‘as it were a part of the same deity.’ He collects and reviews, from the whole circle of Greek history and mythology, the points of coincidence between them: and notices particularly, that like him she is both λυκεία and οὐλία, both the destroyer and the preserver; that she administers her office as angel of Death, sometimes in wrath and sometimes without it; and that her name Artemis, meaning, as he conceives, healthy and uninjured, is in close correspondence with those of Phœbus Apollo.