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)

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crol 8rj tt&s 68e /coa/jLOS, eXiaaofxevo^ irepl yalav,
irelOeTai, fj /cev dyrj<;, teal €Ka>v vtto aelo k pare it at,'
rolov e^ei? vTroepyoi' dviKrjrois evl1 %epalv
dfi(f)y]Kr), TTvpoevr', dei^coovTa2 tcepavvov
tov ydp vtto 7r\rjyf}s cpvaecos ttuvt eppiya<o~ iv>2 •
w av KCLTevOvvecs tcoivov \6yov: 09 Bid irdvTwv
(pOLTa, ynyvvpuevo^; fieyd\oi<; /xi/cpoi<; re epdeo-ac
[go? Toaaos yeyaws vttcltos BaaCXevs Sid ttclvtos^
ovSi ti ylyveTat epyov kirl yOovl crov St^a, $aip,ov,
ovt€ tear aWepiov Oelov tto\ov ovt evl? ttovtw,
ifkrjv OTroaa pe^ovai tca/col acpeTeprjaiv6 dvolai^'

Lo, the whole world7 revolving round the earth

Obeys thy lead and wills to do thy will8.

Such the strong help thou hast in hands supreme,

A two-edged, fiery, ever-living bolt9.

Beneath its blows all nature shuddering reels.

Herewith thou makest one great law to rule

The universe, larger and lesser lights.

[So vast the power of thy kingly sway.]

Nay, nought on earth befalls apart from thee,

Nor in the heaven above, nor in the deep,

Save folly wrought by the wicked10. Yet here too

1 J. von Arnim keeps vtto as read by cod. F. R. F. P. Brunck cj. evl, A. Meineke
cj. /xera.

" U. von YVilamowitz-Moellendorff and J. von Arnim keep the -rrvpoevra dei^dovra of
cod. F, the hiatus notwithstanding. C. Wachsmuth corr. Trvpoevr', aU^doovra. A. C.
Pearson's aeLi'ibovra might be defended by Od. 13. 109 aevaovra and the like.

3 Cod. F has 'ipr^ya followed by space for ten letters. Fulvius Ursinus cj. eppiyaaiv.
C. Wachsmuth says: ' num fuit Zed, wavr tppiyevl' U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
cj. TfXrjyfj cpvaew tppiye to. vavra. A. C. Pearson cj. epya < da/xdadr] >. J. von Arnim
cj. tv6.vt 'ipyo. <TeXeirat>.

i A. Meineke assumed a lacuna before this line. A. C. Pearson condemned the line
as spurious or corrupt. J. von Arnim cj. q> av roaos 7£7aws viraros /3a<nAeus 5id iravros.

5 So R. F. P. Brunck for <?7ri cod. F.

6 Cod. F, followed by J. von Arnim, reads cr<peTlpa.L<TLv.

' Diog. Laert. 7. 138 /ecu avr^v 8e tt]v oiaKbo-p.7}criv tQiv darepuv Kocrfxov elvai Xeyovcri.

8 Cp. Kleanthes frag. 91 Pearson ap. Epiktet. man. 53 ayov 5e /x', cJ ZeO, /ecu avy' 7/
TreTrpupLevri, \ ottoi Trod' vp2v eipd dLareray/xivos, | tl>s eifso/nai y aoKvos- r)v 5e fxrj dekw \ kcikos
yev6p.ei>os, ovdev t)ttov e^o/iai with A. C. Pearson's commentary.

9 Kleanthes is building on the foundations of Herakleitos (supra i. 28 n. 6).

10 A. C. Pearson ad loc. : 'The explanations given by the Stoics of this weak point
in their system are hopelessly confused and contradictory, as may be seen from an

examination of the passages cited in the notes to Zeller, p. 189—193____ we may

perhaps suppose that Cleanthes accounted for the existence of moral evil somewhat as
follows:—evil is not directly due to God, but is a necessary accompaniment of the
process, whereby he created the world out of himself. At the same time, the omnipotence
of God is vindicated by the consideration that evil is ultimately swallowed up in good,