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Zeus, Jupiter and the Oak
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
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page 175 note 1 Dr. Frazer reminds me of the explicit statement in Verg. georg. 2. 325 ff. turn pater omnipotens fecundis imbribus Aether | coniugis in gremium laetae descendit, et omnis | magnus alit, magno commixtus corpore, fetus. Jupiter Pluvialis (C.I.L. ix. 324) and Jupiter imbricitor (Apul. de mundo 37) are strictly parallel to Ζεὺς Ὄμβριος and .
page 175 note 2 It is also worthy of mention that among the Aetolians, Lesbians, and Perrhaebians the month was called δῖος (Bissehoff de fastis Graecorum antiquioribus).
page 176 note 1 is perhaps a later form due, like , to a misconception.
page 176 note 2 Such forms as , are and ‘missbräuchlich’ (Kühner-Blass ii. 328).
page 176 note 3 Proclus h. in Sol. 1 actually addresses the sun as .
page 177 note 1 11. 2. 513 speaks of . Does Aκιωρ the son of afford any clue to the difficult epithet ?
page 177 note 2 Possibly the same root recurs in the name of the town itself, .
page 179 note 1 The names are usually corrected to and .
page 179 note 2 Kretschmer Einleitung p. 256 f. holds that the suffix of these place-names is rather . In that case the first element of would be a reduplicated Δώ, cp. Δωδώ (Simmias Rhod. ap. Steph. Byz. s. v. Δωδώνη).
page 181 note 1 ? cp. Hesych. , ‘forsan ob succisionem quercuum s. arborum’ (Steph. Thes. s.v.).
page 182 note 1 The engraving has N A O Y by mistake for N A O | (Carapanos i. 46).
page 183 note 1 The illustrations in the text are from Carapanos ii. pi. iii 7 and pi. vii. 17.
page 184 note 1 Cp. the at Ceos (C.I.G. ii. p. 288, 31).
page 184 note 2 Phrixus got safe to Colchis, where he sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave its fleece to Aeetes, son of Helios and Perseïs (Apollodor. 1. 9. 6).
page 184 note 3 Cp. Myth. Vat. 1. 24. pellem auream, in qua Juppiter in caelum escendit.
page 185 note 1 Q. V. Cp. in the Samian story.
page 185 note 2 Creuzer Symbolik iv. 280, long since suggested that etc., are etymologically connected with , etc.
page 185 note 3 The same phrase is used of Iris and Eileithyia in h. Apoll. 114, . But this appears to be a mere imitation of the line in the Iliad.
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