Note 2 — BOOK VI.
Rowland Smith translation
τὴν ἔλαφον ἀντὶ παρθένου, a proverb alluding to Diana substituting a stag in the place of Iphigenia when on the point of being sacrificed at Aulis—
"λέγ' οὕνεκ' ἔλαφον ἀντιδοῦσα μου θεἁ "Αρτεμις, ἔσωσε μ', ἣν ἔθυσ' ἐμὸς πατήρ."—Iph. in Taur. 783.