Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

The double axes of Tenedos 659

dian cult of Dionysos. Lenormant remarked that Simonides of
Keos in one of his riddles speaks of an axe as the ' ox-slauehterinp-

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servitor of king Dionysos1,' and—what is more convincing—that

1 Simonid. frag. 172 Bergk4, 163 Hiller—Crusius, ap. Athen. 456 c—E ypicpwSi) 8:
icrrl Kai 'Et/j.uvidrj ravra ireiroLrjp.eva, los (pT)o~i Xa/icaXe'uw 6 YipaKKeuirrjS iv ri2 irepl ^,ip.uviSov
{frag. 13 Kopke in E. Koepke De Chamaeleontis Heracleotac vita librorumque reliquiis
Berlin 1856 p. 21 fif.) " ' pul-ovSfAOV re irarrjp ipiepov Kal cxeTXios ixdvs \ irXr/aiov rjpeicravro
Kap-qara- iraiSa Se ~Svktos j Setd/uevoi (3\e<pdpoLcri, Allcvvuolo dvaKros \ f3ov(povov ovk i6i\ov<ri
r id riveter 6 ai depdirovra.' (A) <paal 8' oi p.ev iiri tlvos rwv dpxaiwv dvaOr/pArcov iv XoXklSl
tout' eTriyeypd(pdai, ireiroLrjadaL 3' iv avrcp rpdyov Kal Se\(p?va, irepl uv elvai rov \byov
Tovrov. (/?) oi Se eis imrbviov ipa\rf)piov SeX&va Kal rpdyov eipyacr p.ivov eiprjadai' Kai elvai
rov (3ov(pbvov Kal rov Alovvctov depdirovra rov Stdvpa/j-fiov. (C) oi di (paaiv iv 'IoiAt'Si rov ru
Aiovvacp 8vbfJ.evov j3ovv virb tlvos tlov veaviaKcov iraiecrBaL TreX^KH. irXr/eriov Se rrjs ioprr/s
overt]? eis xa^Ke?01' SodfjvaL rov ireXeKvv rov ovv 2l/j.u>vl8t)v 'in veov bvra QaSiaai rrpbs rov
XaXKia Kop.Lovp.evov avrbv. iSbvra Se Kai rov rexvirr/v KOLp.wp.evov Kai rov dcrKov Kai rov
KapKLVov eLKrj Keifxevov Kai iiraWrjXws exovra rd ip-irpocrdev, ovrws eXdbvra eiireiv irpbs tovs
ervvrjdeLS rb irpoeLp-qp.ivov irpbj3\i]p.a. rov fxev yap tov ipiepov iraTepa rbv derKov elvaL, ffxi^iov
de ixdvv rbv KapKLvov, i^vktos Se iraiSa rbv ' Tirvov, /3ov<pbvov Si Kai Alovvctov depdirovra rov
ireXeKvv.

An elaborate, but not very enlightening, attempt to make sense of all this will be
found in W. Schultz Rdtsel aus dem hellenischen Kidturkreise Leipzig 1909 i. 16, 31, 36
no. 17, Leipzig 1912 ii. 111—117 (= Mythologische Bibliothek iii. 1 and v. 1), who dis-
tinguishes A and B as partial solutions from C as relatively complete. In A Schultz
emends iv ^aX/cet-coj rpiiro>SL, holding that the bronze tripod of A is tantamount to the