Aura as she sleeps; when she awakes she goes mad and slaughters shepherds and destroys a shrine of Aphrodite. Artemis mocks the pregnant Aura as Nicaea helps her give birth to the twins after whom Mt. Dindymon is named. Aura tries to get a lion to eat the children, but they are saved and she is transformed into a spring. One of the children, Iacchus is given to Athena, Ariadne's crown is made a constellation, and Dionysus is enthroned on Olympus. Footnotes External links Online text: Nonnus, Dionysiaca bks 1–14 translated by W. H. D. Rouse Raw OCR of Köchly's Teubner edition (1857) at the Lace collection of Mount Allison University: vol. 1 and vol. 2 . Nonni panopolitani dionysiacorum, 2 voll., Arminius Koechly (ed.), Lipsiae, in aedibus Teubneri, 1857: vol. 1, vol. 2. Scans of W.H.D. Rouse, (1940–42) Nonnus: Dionysiaca, Loeb Classical Library nos. 344 (books 1–15), 354 (16–35) and 356 (36–48). Cambridge, MA. (Greek text with facing translation) R.F. Newbold summarizes his work on Dionysiaca full english translation of Dionysiaca on perseus catalog Ancient Greek epic poems Dionysus