Zeus : a study in ancient religion . On the strength of the xoanon^ that he had setup at Antiocheia he expected to take life easily, and was in fact alreadypromoted by Maximinus to the post of governor. But Licinius had no soonerset foot in the city of the Antiochenes than he ordered all impostors to bebrought in, and put the prophets and priests of the new-fangled xoanon to thetorture, asking them how they came to play such a lying part. Hard pressed bythe tortures, they could conceal the facts no longer, but explained that the wholemystery was a fraud contrived by the wily Theoteknos. Thereu
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . On the strength of the xoanon^ that he had setup at Antiocheia he expected to take life easily, and was in fact alreadypromoted by Maximinus to the post of governor. But Licinius had no soonerset foot in the city of the Antiochenes than he ordered all impostors to bebrought in, and put the prophets and priests of the new-fangled xoanon to thetorture, asking them how they came to play such a lying part. Hard pressed bythe tortures, they could conceal the facts no longer, but explained that the wholemystery was a fraud contrived by the wily Theoteknos. Thereupon Liciniuspunished them all according to their deserts. He first condemned Theoteknos,and then the partners of his imposture, to death, after inflicting upon them thegreatest possible torments. For all that, the cult of Zeus Philios once started was not easily years later Julian wintered at Antiocheia (362—363 ) and, as we gatherfrom his own Misopogon., was diligent in visiting the temple of Zeus Philios-^..
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