53. Dane: Daphne, daughter of the river-god Peneus, in
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4. As the goddess of Light, or the goddess who brings to light,Diana — as well as Juno — was invoked by women in childbirth:so Horace, Odes iii. 22, says:— “Montium custos nemorumque, Virgo,Quae laborantes utero puellasTer vocata audis adimisque leto,Diva triformis.” (“Virgin custodian of hills and groves, three-formed goddesswho hears and saves from death young women who call uponher thrice when in childbirth”)
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