_To Diana. Iii-22_

Diana, Protector of mountain and wood, Who when three times invoked, hast so well understood, And young mothers in child-birth hast rescued from death, Goddess, triply endowed! Let this tree overhanging my house here, this pine Be for thee, that each year I shall consecrate thine, Happy still--with the blood of a boar, whose last breath, Planned a side-long attack.