Artemisia, The name of a noble Princesse, wife to Mausolus, king of aria, of a notable chastitie, and ercelled so in loue towarde hir bulbaude, that when he was dead, shee caused his heart to be dried in a vessell of gold into poulder, and by little and little she dranke it vp, saying: Their two heartes shoulde neuer depart a sunder, and that she thought there might be no worthie sepulchre made for it, but hir own bodie. Notwithstanding shee made for his bodie such a sepulchre, that for the ercellent workmanship, beautie, and costlynesse, it was taken for one of the marueyles of the worlde: and for the noble fame thereof, all sumptuous and great sepulchres, were afterwarde called Mausolæa. She founde also the herbe Artemisia, called in Latine Damasonium, of great vertue in womens diseases.
Artemisium, A promontorie of Eubœa, and an ymage of Diana.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Artĕmĭsĭa, ae, f., = *)/artemisi/a. I.Wife of King Mausolus, in Caria, to whom, after his death, she built the renowned Mausoleum, Gell. 10, 18.—II. artĕmĭsĭa, ae, f., the plant mugwort, Plin. 25, 7, 36, 73; App. Herb. 10.