but who
appears to
have been
merely a
form of
Artemis.
For after
her death
her body
could not
be found,
but an
image of
her was
discovered
standing
beside the
image of
Artemis,
and the
people
bestowed
on it the
title of
Hecaerge
or
Far-shooter,
one of the
regular
epithets
of the
goddess.
Every year
the
virgins
sacrificed
a young
goat to
the image
by hanging
it,
because
Aspalis
was said
to have
hanged
herself.
The
sacrifice
may have
