Note 268 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Οἱ δὲ ἀμφὶ τὰ ἐρωτικὰ Ἀφροδίτῃ. In the Rape of Helen, Venus is called Ἁρμονίης βασίλεια, (v. 26.) θαλάμων βασίλεια, (v. 137.) and γάμων βασίλεια, (v. 306.) queen of marriage. And to the same purport is the description of Nemesian:
Bucol. Eclog. L. ii. 57.
cui cura jugales Concubitus hominum totis connectere sêclis.
μάλιστα δὲ ἀγαθὴ περὶ γάμους καὶ κοινωνίας, καὶ περὶ τέκνων γονὰς, says the dream-interpreter, of the goddess of love,Artemidori Oneirocrit. L. ii. c. 37. συνδέσμων γὰρ καὶ ἐπιγόνων ἐστὶν αἰτία. The reader will remember her angry speech (tangit et ira Deos) in the prologue of the Hippolytus,
τοὺς μὲν σέβοντας τἀμὰ πρεσβεύω κράτη, σφάλλω δ’ ὅσοι φρονοῦσιν εἰς ἡμᾶς μέγα, κ. τ. λ.
and her vengeful and infuriate character, as drawn by Apollonius Rhodius in reference to the Lemnians:
Argonaut. L. i. 615.
οὕνεκά μιν γεράων ἐπιδηρὸν ἄτισσαν.
and amplified by Valerius Flaccus, L. ii. vs. 29.