Zeus : a study in ancient religion . O. Miiller—F. WieselerDenkm. d. alt. Kunst Gottingen 1856 ii. 4. 4 pi. 61, 789, Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. C. II. 69 logo Appendix L 469 no. 8f.) published a bronze statuette at Copenhagen (L. Miiller Descriptiondes antiquites du MusSe-Thofvaldsen Section i et ii Copenhague 1847 p. 50 height without the peak 3 Danish inches, with it 4, S. B. Smith KortVeiled7iing i Antikkabinettet i Kj(l>benhav7i Kjobenhavn 1864 p. 38 no. 123a),which repeats the type, except that the figure is a beardless youth and wears nosandals. One whose function is to bring to
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . O. Miiller—F. WieselerDenkm. d. alt. Kunst Gottingen 1856 ii. 4. 4 pi. 61, 789, Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. C. II. 69 logo Appendix L 469 no. 8f.) published a bronze statuette at Copenhagen (L. Miiller Descriptiondes antiquites du MusSe-Thofvaldsen Section i et ii Copenhague 1847 p. 50 height without the peak 3 Danish inches, with it 4, S. B. Smith KortVeiled7iing i Antikkabinettet i Kj(l>benhav7i Kjobenhavn 1864 p. 38 no. 123a),which repeats the type, except that the figure is a beardless youth and wears nosandals. One whose function is to bring to maturity might well be portrayed aseither man or boy. Asklepios himself was beardless on occasion (Paus. 2. 10. 3Sikyon {supra p. 1080), 2. 13. 5 Phlious, 8. 28. i Gortys. Furtwangler Master-pieces ofGk. Sculpture pp. 277 n. 5, 300, E. Thraemer in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 1690 f, 1693 ff.) o even infantile (Paus. 8. 25. 11 Thelpousa, 8. 32. 5Megalopolis. Corp. inscr. Gr. iii no. 5974 A, B {) = Inscr. Or. Sic. It. no. 967. Fig. 931. Fig. 932. a.,b— Kaibel Epigr. Gr. Add. no. 805 a, b = Cougny A7ith. Pal. Append, i. 247a, /3:Overbeck Gr. Plastik^ ii, 181). The Copenhagen bronze is inscribed OMORION(Panofka loc. cit.)^ which could be connected with Zeus Ofiopt-os (Steph. Ling. v. 1984 A quotes the title from Polyb. 2. 39. 6; but see supra i. 17 n. 4)or^Optoff (Dion. Hal. ant. Rom. 2. 74)=Iupiter Terminus ox Te^minalis {supra , 520 n. 2. Cp. Aug. de civ. Dei 11 ipse in aethere sit luppiter,... in lanoinitiator, in Termino terminator. E. Samter Die Entwickelung des Terminus-kultes in the Archiv f. Rel. 1913 xvi. 137—144 argues that the boundary-stonecould not have been originally sacred to lupiter, because at its erection offeringswere placed in the hole prepared for it (Siculus Flaccus in the Grom. vet. i. 141Lachmann)—a procedure suggestive of a chthonian rather than of a celestialpower. But the lord of the property, who had been a celestial lup
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