Note IQ — 1820 (continued 3)
Reading edition
Professor Lewis Campbell sent me the following note on the Gemmi sonnet:—"Cynthia is here (1) the moon, who "sleeps with Endymion," (2) the huntress Artemis (or Diana), roaming the forest glades in pursuit of game. In imagining her as giving motion to the stars, it is possible that the poet may have had in his mind a false echo of Ovid's lines addressed to Aurora, Amores, i. l. 27—
Optavi quoties, ne nox tibi cedere vellet, Ed. Neu fugerent vultus sidera mota tuos."