She spoke, and with her left hand seized both her (Diana's) hands at the wrist, and with her right plucked the bow[688] from her shoulders. Smiling, she beat her about the ears with it, while she writhed herself; and the fleet arrows fell out [of her quiver, as she moved]. Then the goddess fled, weeping, like a dove which flies from a hawk to a hollow rock, her hiding-place, (for neither was it fated that she should be taken by it;) so she fled, weeping, and left her arrows there.
[Footnote 688: I have followed Kennedy, who says: "The preferable meaning of [Greek: toxa] is arcus. This Juno employs as an instrument of chastisement, to avoid the infliction of which, her antagonist turns from side to side, and whilst thus shifting her position lets fall her arrows, [Greek: oistoi], ver. 492." Others by [Greek: toxa] understood both bow and arrows.]
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