[511] ‘Tergeminus’ of Geryon, Lucr. 5.28. See on 6. 287. Hecate is called τρισσοκέφαλος Orph. Argon. 974 (where there is no occasion to read τρισσοκάρηνος with Heyne, the penult being lengthened in pronunciation, as in κυνοκέφαλος, τετρακέφαλος, τρικέφαλος). The same goddess was supposed to be Artemis, the Moon, and Hecate or Persephone. So 6. 247, “Voce vocans Hecaten, Caeloque Ereboque potentem,” and Horace's “Diva triformis” (3 Od. 22. 4). ‘Tria ora Dianae,’ the three-faced Diana, like “foedati ora Galaesi” 7. 575 for “Galaesum foedato ore,” “squalentia terga lacerti” G. 4. 13 for “lacertus squalenti tergo.”
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