Hecaerge

• The name of Diana, Serv. ad Verg. A. 11, 532.—
• II One of the daughters of Boreas, Claud. Laud. Stil. 3, 253 and 308.

(Ἑκαέργη), a daughter of Boreas, and one of the Hyperborean maidens, who were believed to have introduced the worship of Artemis in Delos. (Callim. Hymn. in Del. 292; Paus. 1.43.4, 5.7.4; Hdt. 4.35.) The name Hecaerge signifies hitting at a distance; and it is not improbable that the story of the Hyperborean maiden may have arisen out of an attribute of Artemis, who bore the surname of Hecaerge. (Ant. Lib. 13.) Aphrodite had the same surname at Iulis in Cos. (Ant. Lib. 1.) [L.S]

(Ἑκαέργη). (1) A Hyperborean maiden, daughter of Boreas. She was one of those who introduced the worship of Artemis into Delos.

(2) An epithet often applied to Artemis as being one who effects her works from a distance, which is the meaning of the word. The masculine form (ἑκάεργος) is in like manner applied to Apollo.