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Astrapaios, A strap ton
813
slaves1, who attempted thus to invest their puny missiles with the
terrors of the thunderbolt2. The slave-leader Athenion, who posed
Fig. 7S0.
1 G. Kaibel in the Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. p. 608.
2 For the thunderbolt as a device on sling-bullets see also Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 2407.
4/', c (with inscription AIOC 1 NIKH), G. Fougeres in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant.
ii. 1610 fig. 3624 (with inscription AC I PE (?) for accipe, retrograde; found in Spain, and
probably used in the war of Caesar against Pompey, cp. bell. Hisp. 13 and 18), fig. 3628
(with inscription AEEA[I], cp. Corp. inscr. Gr. iv no. 8529, a; found on the Akropolis
at Athens), British Museum: A Guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman Life
London 1908 pp. 99, 105 no. 220 fig. 86 (with inscription _Z~fll AOY ; found on the battle-
field of Marathon), and many others listed by C. Zangemeister ' Glandes plumbeae Latine
inscriptae' in the Ephemeris epigraphica 1885 vi p. xlv s.v. 'fulmen.1
813
slaves1, who attempted thus to invest their puny missiles with the
terrors of the thunderbolt2. The slave-leader Athenion, who posed
Fig. 7S0.
1 G. Kaibel in the Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. p. 608.
2 For the thunderbolt as a device on sling-bullets see also Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 2407.
4/', c (with inscription AIOC 1 NIKH), G. Fougeres in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant.
ii. 1610 fig. 3624 (with inscription AC I PE (?) for accipe, retrograde; found in Spain, and
probably used in the war of Caesar against Pompey, cp. bell. Hisp. 13 and 18), fig. 3628
(with inscription AEEA[I], cp. Corp. inscr. Gr. iv no. 8529, a; found on the Akropolis
at Athens), British Museum: A Guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman Life
London 1908 pp. 99, 105 no. 220 fig. 86 (with inscription _Z~fll AOY ; found on the battle-
field of Marathon), and many others listed by C. Zangemeister ' Glandes plumbeae Latine
inscriptae' in the Ephemeris epigraphica 1885 vi p. xlv s.v. 'fulmen.1