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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dXXd av Kal ra irepiaad <t,;i> €7r[araaat dpria Oeivai,

Kal Koa/Jielv raKoafxa tcai ov (fitXa crol (piXa eariv2,

woe yap et? ev iravra3 avvrjppbOKa^ ecrOXd Kcucolaiv,

cog6' eva yiyveadai nravrcov Xoyov alev eovra,

ov (frevyovres icoaiv4' oaoi dvr/tmv kcikol eicrt,

hvap,opoi, o'l t' dyaOcov /xev del Krrjcnv Trodeovres

ovr eaopwoi deov kolvov vopuov, ovre rcKvovaiv,

d> Kev TreiOo/jLevoL avv vw ftiov iaOXdv e^oiev.

avrol 8' av9' oppiwaiv dvoi kcikov dXXos eV aXXor',

o'l fxev virep So|f?;9 airovhrjv Svaepiarov e^ovres,

oi 8' eirl /cep&oavvas rerpafipLevoL ovSevl Koa/xco,

aXXoi 8' ei5 dvecriv Kal crcoyuaTO? i']8ea epya

Thou knowest how to even up the odd,

Order disorder, and turn hate to love".

Thou hast so welded all things into one,

Joined good with evil, that there runs for ever

One law through all, which bad men scorn and scape.

Ill-fated folk ! They hanker after wealth,

And neither see God's universal law,

N'or hear it and in wise obedience

Attain the life worth living. But themselves

Speed their own witless way to diverse ills—

Some sunk in desperate strife for glory vain,

Some bent on money-making's reckless quest,

Others on ease and bodily delights.

and that the apparent irregularity of nature is in reality only a phase in the working of
a higher law.'

1 So H. Sauppe for ■wepiaaa eVtm-acrcu cod. F, which is kept by U. von Wilamowitz-
Moellendorff.

2 U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff cj. Tevxeiv for iariv, to escape the hiatus.

3 R. F. P. Brunck cj. airavTa.

4 U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff suspects ewaiv.

5 Cod. F has avev kclkov aXXos iir' &\\a. Fulvius Ursinus cj. kclXou. H. Sauppe corr.
kixkov and &XXo. C. Wachsmuth restored avoi kolkov &\Xos eV a\Xo. U. von Wilamowitz-
Moellendorff, on the ground that honours, wealth, and pleasure were not /cara but
doid(popa, would read &vev Xoyov a\Xos eV tiXXa.

B It is interesting to remember that Kleanthes hailed from Assos, where there was
a cult of Zeus 'O/xopujos (J. R. S. Sterrett in the Papers of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens 1882—1883 i. 35 ff. no. 15, 1 ff. 6 iepevs tov 2e/3aaTo£i d\eov Kaicrapos,
6 5i au[r]|6s Kal iraTpios (3acnXev\s Kal iepevs tov Aids t\ov ' Qfxov(b(L)ov, Kal yvp.\va<xiapxos,
KotVros A6|XXios 'iuXercupos rr\v I arodv avidriKev 6ei2 K\aiffapi Ze/3a,0tu> Kal tw 8rj\/j.({3
k.t.X.), whose title—perhaps a variant form of 'O/xoXuii'os, 'Ofj.oXwos (A. Boeckh on the
Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 3569, Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. pp. 309 n. 9, 1117 n. 1, O. Jessen
in Pauly—Wissowa Keal-Enc. viii. 2263 f., 2269. See further infra Append. B Boiotia)—
was probably connected by folk-etymology with o/xovoia (cp. Istros ap. Phot, lex., Souid.
s.v. 'O/uoXwtos Zeus-... "larpos de ev ttq t/3' rrjs "Zvvayuyyjs, oid to wap AioXevai to
bpovoyjTiKov Kal eiprjviKov o/xoXov Xeyeadai).