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1  Penelope came out of her room looking like Diana or Venus, and wept as she flung her arms about her son.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
2  While he was thus in two minds Helen came down from her high vaulted and perfumed room, looking as lovely as Diana herself.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  So when rosy-fingered Dawn made love to Orion, you precious gods were all of you furious till Diana went and killed him in Ortygia.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
4  Dearth never comes there, nor are the people plagued by any sickness, but when they grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
5  Then Penelope came down from her room looking like Venus or Diana, and they set her a seat inlaid with scrolls of silver and ivory near the fire in her accustomed place.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
6  Then I saw Phaedra, and Procris, and fair Ariadne daughter of the magician Minos, whom Theseus was carrying off from Crete to Athens, but he did not enjoy her, for before he could do so Diana killed her in the island of Dia on account of what Bacchus had said against her.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
7  Even so I wish that the gods who live in heaven would hide me from mortal sight, or that fair Diana might strike me, for I would fain go even beneath the sad earth if I might do so still looking towards Ulysses only, and without having to yield myself to a worse man than he was.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
8  When she had relieved herself by weeping she prayed to Diana saying, "Great Goddess Diana, daughter of Jove, drive an arrow into my heart and slay me; or let some whirlwind snatch me up and bear me through paths of darkness till it drop me into the mouths of over-flowing Oceanus, as it did the daughters of Pandareus."
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX