A Horse From A Dream

For peace we cry O Artemis the grandmotherof lions,

Nurse of the hedgehogs and fawns,white-breasted dawn!

To the fading stars we sing, we sing ourAgido

The doe-slight tender cousin of Hagesikborathe tall,

She is so like the sun that when she liftsher rosy arms, 

Which is Helios, which is Agido?  But Hagesikbora

Among us is like a stallion among his mares,

The silken quiver of his flanks roundingtheir eyes,

A horse from a dream and not of this world.

III (Excerpt) Alkman: A Hymn to Artemis of the Strict Observance.

Guy Davenport translation from 7 Greeks. New York, New Directions, 1995. 

Copy of a work by Leochares (4th century BC): Artemis with a hind, better known as "Diana of Versailles". Marble, Roman artwork, Imperial Era (1st-2nd centuries CE). Found in Italy.  Given by Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France. The Louvre, Paris.