Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Venatrix

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

VENA'TRIX (κυνηγέτις). A huntress, who follows the chase with the bow and hounds (Virg. Aen. i. 319.); more especially used to designate Diana, the goddess of the chase (Ov. Met. ii. 454. Juv. xiii. 80.), who is represented in that character by the annexed figure (Venatrix/1.1), from a terra-cotta lamp.

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