Fragment 118
118Maidens, dumb as I am, I speak thus, if any ask, and set before your feet a tireless voice: To Leto’s daughter Aethopia was I dedicated by Arista daughter of Hermocleides son of Saonaïades, thy servant, O queen of women; whom bless thou, and deign to glorify our house.
Παῖδες, ἄφωνος ἐοῖσα τόδ’ ἐννέπω, αἴ τις ἔρηται,
φωνὰν ἀκαμάταν κατθεμένα πρὸ ποδῶν·
Αἰθοπίᾳ με κόρᾳ Λατοῦς ἀνέθηκεν Ἀρίστα
Ἑρμοκλειδαία τῶ Σαοναϊάδα,
σὰ πρόπολος, δέσποινα γυναικῶν· ᾇ σὺ χαρεῖσα
πρόφρων ἁμετέραν εὐκλέϊσον γενεάν.
On a Priestess of Diana.
Does any ask? I answer from the dead;
A voice that lives is graven o’er my head:
To dark-eyed Dian, ere my days begun,
Aristo vowed me, wife of Saon’s son:
Then hear thy priestess, hear, O virgin Power,
And thy best gifts on Saon’s lineage shower.
R.
The goddess here invoked as the ‘queen of women’ appears to have been Artĕmis, the Diana of the Romans.