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Prayer to Diana

Diana
Gracious Diana, virgin daughter of Latona, who inhabits sacred groves and nurtures woodlands, I, her father, vow this child into service as Your handmaiden. Holding Your weapons before all others, Your suppliant flees on the wind from the enemy. Bear witness to my vow, I pray, O Goddess, and accept her as Your own, whom I now commit to a precarious breeze.
Fons · Source
AuthorVirgil
WorkAeneid
Section11.557-560
PeriodAugustan
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formliterary
DeitiesDiana
Functionsdedication · oath
Spherefamily · military