Zeus : a study in ancient religion . f. pi. 70, i BAIIAEHS ANTIOXOY ETTIc^ANOYIwith I E to left, BS P (= 120 ) and ear of corn below, ib. iii. 103 pi. 70, 2) the Mace-donian eagle appears shouldering a sceptre. On a gold coin struck by Koson, king ofThrace (??) under the Romans, c. 42 the eagle carries a sceptre and a wreath { Cat. Coins Thrace p. 208 fig., Hunter Cat. Cohis i. 436, Ant. Miinz. BerlinPaeonia etc. iii. 2. 23 fig., Head Hist, niim.^ pp. 272, 289). Denarii struck c. 49 one Terentius Varro pro quaestore have obv. varro • PRO Q, a filleted bust of lupiter(T
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . f. pi. 70, i BAIIAEHS ANTIOXOY ETTIc^ANOYIwith I E to left, BS P (= 120 ) and ear of corn below, ib. iii. 103 pi. 70, 2) the Mace-donian eagle appears shouldering a sceptre. On a gold coin struck by Koson, king ofThrace (??) under the Romans, c. 42 the eagle carries a sceptre and a wreath { Cat. Coins Thrace p. 208 fig., Hunter Cat. Cohis i. 436, Ant. Miinz. BerlinPaeonia etc. iii. 2. 23 fig., Head Hist, niim.^ pp. 272, 289). Denarii struck c. 49 one Terentius Varro pro quaestore have obv. varro • PRO Q, a filleted bust of lupiter(Terminalis ?) to right; rev. MAGN • PRO COS {Magnus pro consule) in exergue, a sceptreupright between an eagle and a dolphin (emblems of earth, air, and sea ?) (BabelonMonn. rip. rom. ii. 343, 485 f. fig., Brit. Mus. Cat. Roiti. Coins Rep. ii. 362 nos. 64,65 pi. 100, 16, 66, 363 nos. 67, 68 pi. roc, 18, 69). An aureus of Q. Caecilius MetellusPius Scipio, 48—46 , has obv. meteLPIVS scip«imp, a bust of lupiter {Terminalis^). 1134 Appendix M but an actual embodiment of Zeus\ which conferred upon its holder thepowers of the sky-god. This belief has left traces of itself throughout thehistorical period of Greece and Rome 2; indeed, it appears to have lingeredon^ well into the middle ages*. In a sense it is still with us^. But if themythopoeic mind fitly transformed any ancient king into an eagle *^, it did soin the case of Periphas with a clear conscience. For Periphas, as son or fatherof Lapithes, was near akin to the Phlegyai^, whose very name marks themas an Eagle-tribe^. In conclusion, the devotion of Periphas to Apollon is adequately explained,either by the fact that in the Lapith genealogy Lapithes and Kentauros were to right, with an eagles head and sceptre beloM (Babelon Monn. rep. rom. i. 278 f. fig., Brit. Mus. Cat. Rom. Coins Rep. ii. 571 fig.:there are denarii with the same type—Babelon op. 279, Brit. Mus. Cat. Rom. Coins Rep. ii. 571 no. 4pi. 121, 2,
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