Zeus : a study in ancient religion . tiqtiorii77iqtie scriptoruni ecclesiasticoru77i Venetiis 1768 iv. 114—130). ^ We have here a buried hexameter : Siv iravrbyv dpxvyos ^tt avrijs AvTiox^ias. ^ Euseb. /list. eccl. 9. 3 reXeurwi elduXou ri Atos $iXtou fxayyaveiais rial /cat yorjreiaisIdp^erai, reXerds re dvdyvovs avrcp Kul (xvifjaeis dKaWieprjTovs i^ayiaTOvs re KaOap/xovsiTTLvo-qaas, p.^XP- ^^^ jSacrtXea?s ttji reparelav dt oiv edoKei xpV<^f^^^ {l^^- XPWf^ovs) iKTeketviiredeiKvvTo. Cp. the loose translation of Rufin. Mst. eccl. 9. 3 apud Antiochiam simula-crum quoddam lovis Amicalis nuper c


Zeus : a study in ancient religion . tiqtiorii77iqtie scriptoruni ecclesiasticoru77i Venetiis 1768 iv. 114—130). ^ We have here a buried hexameter : Siv iravrbyv dpxvyos ^tt avrijs AvTiox^ias. ^ Euseb. /list. eccl. 9. 3 reXeurwi elduXou ri Atos $iXtou fxayyaveiais rial /cat yorjreiaisIdp^erai, reXerds re dvdyvovs avrcp Kul (xvifjaeis dKaWieprjTovs i^ayiaTOvs re KaOap/xovsiTTLvo-qaas, p.^XP- ^^^ jSacrtXea?s ttji reparelav dt oiv edoKei xpV<^f^^^ {l^^- XPWf^ovs) iKTeketviiredeiKvvTo. Cp. the loose translation of Rufin. Mst. eccl. 9. 3 apud Antiochiam simula-crum quoddam lovis Amicalis nuper consecratum artibus quibusdam magicis et impurisconsecrationibus ita compositum erat, ut falleret oculos intuentium et portenta quaedamostentare videretur ac responsa proferre. C. F. Cruse renders reXercts re dvdyvovi reciting forms of initiation etc., clearly taking dudyvovs to be duayvovs—an in-genious error. ^ Liban. or. 11. 51 (i. 2. 453, i ff. Foerster), siip7-a i. 236 n. 10. Cp. Chvn. Paschalc Zeus Phi Ho s 1187. visited lone and, when a storm burst so that the river Orontes, then calledDrakon, overflowed its banks, bade the inhabitants pray for deliverance. There-upon a ball of lightning fell from the sky and stopped at once the downpour andthe flood. Perseus kindled a fire from the blaze, took it to his own palace inPersia, and taught the Persians to reverence it as divine. He also establishedfor the men of lone a sanctuary of Immortal Fire^ In the Hellenistic age thissanctuary on Mount Silpion was known as that of Zeus Keraunios^. Again, thefoundation of Antiocheia itself was directly associated with the cult of in his panegyric of the town says^: The settlement began with Zeus Bottiaios^^ erected by Alexander, and thehill called Emathia after Alexanders home. i. 76 Dindorf iKTiaav odv iKei oi avrol Iwrtrai iepov Kpoviojuoi (but see supra i. 237 n. i)eU Tb ^lXttlov 6pos and perhaps Liban. le^aL ad luhan. 79 (ii. 152, 10 ff. Foerster) citeds


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