Thyone's [Semeles'] son [Dionysos] love-sick for Aura the desirable, boarslayer, daughter of Cybele, mother of the third Bacchus late-borna [Iacchus].
aThyone is one of the names of Semele. Aura, for whom see inf., xlviii. 238 ff., was one of the nymphs of Artemis, hence a huntress. There are many traditions about the birth and birthplace of Dionysos, and hence it came to be thought that there were several deities confused. Diodorus (iii.63) gives five, Cicero three (Nat. Deor. iii. 23). the third here is Iacchos.
Then he left the halls of Pallene and Thracian Boreas, and went on to Rheia's hiuse, where the divine court of the prolific Cybele stood on Phrygian soil. There grew Aura the moubtain maiden of Rhyndacos, and hunted over the foothills of rocky Dindymon, She was yet unacquainted with love, a comrade of the Archeress. She kept aloof from the notions of unwarlike maids, like a young Artemis, this daughter of Lelantos; for the father of this [p. 443] stormfoot girl was ancient Lelantos the Titan, who wedded Periboia, a daughter of Oceanus; a manlike maid she was, who knew nothing of Aphrodite.
