The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c10.17

c10.17

"The cause of Orion's death is related variously. According to some, Orion was carried off by Eos (Aurora), who had fallen in love with him; but as this was displeasing to the gods, Artemis killed him with an arrow in Ortygia.* According to others, he was beloved by Artemis and Apollo† indignant at his sister's affection for him, asserted that she was unable to hit with her “arrow a distant point which he showed her in the sea. “She thereupon took aim, the arrow hit its mark, but the “mark was the head of Orion, who was swimming in the “sea. A third account, which Horace follows, states that he “offered violence to Artemis, and was killed by the god- “dess with one of her arrows.”