Zeus : a study in ancient religion . ray Kairos as a youthfulgod. A relief at Turin (fig. 799) shows him, with forelock and tonsure, balancing ^ H. Posnansky Nemesis und Adrasteia Breslau 1890 p. 113. See also supra pp. 99 n. I, 734 n- 3- ^ C. A. Lobeck in his ed. of Soph. Ai. Lipsiae 1835 p, 85 n.*. ^ Supra p. 374. ^ Supra p. 550 fig. 426. ^ We are almost reminded of Zagreus the shape-shifter, who appeared now as ayouthful Zeus, now as an aged Kronos {supra i. 398 f., 647). ^ Supra p. 549 n. 6. ^ A. Rivautella—J. P. Ricolvi Monmnenta Taurinensia Augustre Taurinorum 1747ii. 4 ff. no. 22 with p
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . ray Kairos as a youthfulgod. A relief at Turin (fig. 799) shows him, with forelock and tonsure, balancing ^ H. Posnansky Nemesis und Adrasteia Breslau 1890 p. 113. See also supra pp. 99 n. I, 734 n- 3- ^ C. A. Lobeck in his ed. of Soph. Ai. Lipsiae 1835 p, 85 n.*. ^ Supra p. 374. ^ Supra p. 550 fig. 426. ^ We are almost reminded of Zagreus the shape-shifter, who appeared now as ayouthful Zeus, now as an aged Kronos {supra i. 398 f., 647). ^ Supra p. 549 n. 6. ^ A. Rivautella—J. P. Ricolvi Monmnenta Taurinensia Augustre Taurinorum 1747ii. 4 ff. no. 22 with pi., E. Curtius Die Darstellungen des Kairos in the Arch. Zeit. 1875xxxiii. 5 f. pi. I, I (photograph of cast = my fig. 799), H. Heydemann Winckelmannsfest-Progr. Halle 1879 P- 35 Turin : Museo Lapidario no. i (thinks the slab a modern copy ofan ancient relief: unconvincing), H. Diitschke Antike Bildtuerke in Oberitalieu Leipzio-1880 iv. 73 f. no. 117, Friederichs—Wolters Gipsabgiisse p. 751 no. 1897, A. Baumeister 862 Appendix A. the scales on the edge of a razor and depressing one pan with his finger^ Thewould-be archaic wings, floating tresses, muscular body, and barocco pose allpoint to Pergamene influence. Equipoise on the razor was a trait naturally suggested by the old Greekproverb it stands on the razors edge2. An engraved corne-lian of imperial date in the Berlin collection figures Kairoshimself, scales in hand, treading gingerly along the narrowloom of a steersmans paddle (fig. 800)^. And Phaedrus musthave seen similar representations in which the light-footedgod even trod the razors edge—cursu zwhicri^ pendens i?tnovacula^^—unless indeed we venture with G. Thiele^ totranslate the last phrase weighing on the razors edge, inwhich case Phaedrus and the Turin relief would be in exactagreement. The recognition of Kairos on Italian soil was attended by a certain gram-matical awkwardness. Phaedrus describes the god in words of the masculinegender^, but names him Temp
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