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Zeus Asklepios

posuit). See further F. Cumont 'Alexandre d'Abonotichos' in the Memoires de
V Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique 1887 xl. 13 ff., 37 ff. and in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 1634 f., vii. 1468 f., E. Babelon ' Le faux prophete
Alexandre d'Abonotichos' in the Rev. Num. iv Serie 1900 iv. 1—30 with 6 fig's.,
W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1692 f., Gruppe Gr. Myth. Ret. p. 1487,
O. Weinreich 'Alexandras der Liigenprophet und seine Stellung in der Religio-
sitat des II. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.' in the Neue Jahrb. f. klass. Altertum 1921
xlvii. 129—151. The main point to bear in mind—a point commonly missed—is
that the populace regarded Asklepios as essentially serpentiform.

(5) The Name Asklepios.

This leads us to consider the question whether 'Ao-kA^^o? originally meant
' Snake5 and nothing more. The name occurs in a puzzling variety of forms :
'AyXaoTrris (Hesych. 'AyXaoTrrjs■ 6 'AukX^wlos. Aducoves. So Musurus for
.yXaoirrjs cod., cp. Bekker anecd. i. 329, 23, Souid. s.v. ay/xaai, Zonar. lex.
S.V. ayp.a<Ti).

'AyXcnrios (G. Dickins in the Ann. B?'it. Sch. Ath. 1904—1905 xi. 131 f. no. 1
fig. 1 publishes a stele at Thalamai (Koutiphari) inscribed A AN I KlA
ANE<8>BKE I TAIATAAPini in lettering which M. N. Tod ib.
assigns to c. 350 B.C. and W. Kolbe in Inscr. Gr. Arc. Lac. Mess, i no.
1313 to s. v B.C.).

'Aa-KXrjTTLos in epic, Ionic, Attic. ^Ao-o-kX^ttlos thrice in Attic inscriptions
(K. Meisterhans Grammatik der attischen Inschrifte7iz Berlin 1900 p. 89
n. 770), cp. 'Aaa-KXrjTTLddrjs (Id. ib. p. 89 n. 771), 'Aaa-KX-qiriodaipos (id. ib.
p. 89 n. 772).

'AanXairios in non-Ionic dialects. 'Ao-koXtvios in a Gortynian inscription
(F. Halbherr in the Mon. d. Line. 1889 i. 38 ff. C, 7 AIKAAPION).
'AcrnXetTTios in a Spartan inscription (Corp. inscr. Gr. i no. 1444, 10
AZKAEiniOY) turns out to be a mistaken reading (H. J. W. Tillyard
and A. M. Woodward in the Ami. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1906—1907 xiii. 212
AZKAHIIIOY, Inscr. Gr. Arc. Lac. Mess, i no. 602, 10).

'Atr^ciTi-io? in a Boeotian inscription (Inscr. Gr. sept, i no. 3191 f., 3 AZ-
XAAPIfl, 37 f. [AIX]|AAPIfl Orchomenos), cp. 'A<rXXdncop (Collitz—
Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. i. 397 no. 57ia, 10 Akraiphia), but 'ArncXcnrtxios
(ib. i. 174 no. 476, 40 Orchomenos).

AlcrxXaftios in the alphabet of Megara or Corinth on the leg of an archaic
bronze statuette from Bologna (Corp. inscr. Gr. iii no. 6737, 2, Roehl
Inscr. Gr. ant. no. 549, 2, Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 356, 2, Roberts Gk.

Epigr. i. 146 no. 118 (c), 2 AICXAATJOI).
AlcncXcnrios in the oldest Epidaurian inscription (P. Cavvadias Fouilles
d''Epidaure Athenes 1893 i. 37 no. 8 on a bronze phidle, to be dated at
the beginning of s. v B.C., if not earlier still, Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1202

TOI AIM KAAPlOl) and in an inscription from Troizen (E. Legrand
in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1893 xvn- 90 ff. no. 4, 3, Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no.
771, 3 TniAIIKAAP[ini]).
Ala-KXaTTLevs in another early Epidaurian inscription (P. Cavvadias Fouilles
d?Epidaure Athenes 1893 i. 37 no. 10 from the rim of a bronze vessel

IIIIMGIHAA^IAH^' AtV/cXa™! fi' [dvid^e—]).
Aisclapius in an inscription painted on an Etruscan cup (H. Jordan in the