Diana

In the ancient sources

Roman poets and historians

Trivia

“of the crossroads” Catullus 34.15

triformis

“three-formed” Horace, Odes 3.22.4

• Catullus 34 A chorus of girls and boys hymns Latona's daughter, born under the Delian olive: mistress of mountains, woods and rivers, called Juno Lucina by women in labor, Trivia, and Luna with borrowed light, who measures out the year.
• Livy 1.45 King Servius Tullius builds her temple on the Aventine as a shrine shared by Rome and the Latin peoples.
• Ovid, Fasti 3.259–276 In her grove at Aricia, by the lake, the priest-king rules until a stronger man kills him; women whose prayers were answered carry torches there from Rome, garlanded.
• Virgil, Aeneid 7.761–782 Diana hides the revived Hippolytus in her grove at Aricia under the new name Virbius, which is why no horses may enter it.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138–252 Actaeon stumbles on Diana bathing; she splashes him, he becomes a stag, and his own hounds tear him apart.
• Statius, Silvae 3.1.55–60 On the Ides of August, Trivia's grove at Aricia glows with torches, and Diana's day is kept across Italy.

Virgil calls her 'triple Hecate, the three faces of the virgin Diana' (Aeneid 4.511). Her August festival, now often called the Nemoralia, appears in these texts simply as her day on the Ides of August.

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