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reference to the Phytalidai and their fig-culture ? Arguments in support of either
interpretation lie near to hand.

In may be urged that Zeus was notoriously sympathetic with the outcast
and the vagabond. He was worshipped as Hikesios, 'the Suppliant's god1,'

Kapwov irapddocnv. Slo Kal irpbawirov tov deov irapa rots ^a£t'o(S to fj.eu tov BaK%ea;s
Aiovvcrov KaXovfievov etvai afxtrfKivov, to 8e tov Meikix'iov o-uklvov. to. yap cru/ca /xet\i%a
KaXeiaQai, where T. Reinesius' proposed alteration of 7Slei\ixioj>...Mei\ix'Lov.../j.<:l\ixa into
~M6pvxov.--lilopuxov---/J-°PvXC1' (CP- Souid. s.vv. M6puxos> fJ-uporepos Mopvxov) is a good
example of misplaced ingenuity.

1 At Athens in s. vi B.C. (Poll. 8. 142 rpels deovs 6/xvvvai Ke\evet 'SSXiov, 'Ikectlov,
Kadapcriov, 'E^aKeaT^pa, i.e. Zeus under three diverse aspects (cp. Poll. 1. 24), as observed

by W. Dindorf ad loc, G. F. Schoemann Griechische
Alterthiimer^ Berlin 1902 ii. 145, 2lj6 = id. Antiquites
recques trans. C. Galuski Paris 1887 ii. 185, 331,
O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 1592.
The recognition of Zeus 'E^aKeo-rrjp (Hesych. 'E£a/ce-
0-Trjpt.os- 6 Zevs. Kal 7]"Hpa) is perhaps not unconnected
with the fact that Solon's own father was 'E^/ceo-rio^s.
The oath by this triad of Zeuses was inscribed on the
amoves (Hesych. rpels deoL- irapa 26\wi>t ev rots ai~oo~iv

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