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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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156 Zeus Ourios^ ikmenos, Rudnemos, Bdreios

This curious title was known already from a passage of
Martianus Capella1, which assigns Iupiter Secundanus together with
Iovis Opulentia and Minerva to the third of the sixteen regions of
the sky recognised in Etruscan lightning-lore2. Since the series com-
mences with the north, the third division of the first quarter3 would
correspond with the sector N.E. to E.N.E. of our mariner's compass,
and this (north-east by east) is just the direction of a wind blowing
down the Dardanelles. The inscription equating Iupiter Sequnaanus
with Zeus Ourios explains in fact Capella's epithet, which had
previously puzzled the commentators4.

Moreover, it adds point to a well known phrase of Catullus3.
He is telling how his yacht brought him safely from Bithynia to
Italy in 56 B.C.:

And thence through all the seas that break

She bore her master well,
Whether the breeze her sail would shake

And left or right compel,
Or Jove who followed in her wake
Full on the canvas fell.

The poet's use of Iupiter Secundus is obviously a variation on the
more prosaic and technical Iupiter Secundanus. The homeward
journey through the Bosporos6 was sped, appropriately enough, by
the god whom we have seen identified with Zeus Oiirios1. And the

Taios "Htos Tirol) vios At/3wc, | AeiVios ITojUtt/Xios AevKiov i/!6s, | KAutos Xav4>Vi0S
UoirXlov vi&s VpefiLavds, | ABXos KorTios tHe/ieplov vi6s, \ Aetiiccos Overdpios no7rMou uios, 1
MdapKos 'OfifipiKios ~M.adpKov vl6s, \ AeK^tos "A/nrios Kourou, | AedKws Ai(ptdios Aevdov teal
Taiov Awpodeos vearepos, | Aeixios Ila/ccicios AevKlov Tpij(poiv, | Tdios Stjios Tvalov
Hpa/cX^toi/, | Te/3^pios Mai'/aos AcvkIov, | IVatos Tourci/)ios Tlow\iov 'OAu/mtioSwoos, |

ol'TZp/Mto-Tai Kai1 Airok\wvM<XTal /ecu Ylocrecdui'iaaTal (Dessau reads IIocaSwj'iaaTai) | *K
twv ISiuv Ad Oiiplui dviO-QKav.

1 Mart. Cap. 47 nam Iovis Secundani et Iovis Opulentiae Minervaeque domus illjC
(sc. in tertia regione caeli) sunt constitutae. sed omnes circa ipsum Iovem fuerant m
praesenti.

2 C. O. Thulin Die etruskische Disciplin i. Die Blitzlehre Goteborg 1906 p. 16 ff-
('Die 16 Himmelsregionen'), id. Die Gbtter des Martianus Capella und der Bronzeleber
von Piacenza Gieszen 1906 p. 62 ff. ('Das System der \i Loci,' cp. A. Bouche-Leclercq
L'astrologie grecque Paris 1899 p. 280 ff.).

3 Plin. not. hist. 2. 143.

4 See U. F. Kopp's n. on Mart. Cap. 47. He cp. Mart. Cap. 51 sed etiam Liber ac
Secundanus Pales vocantur ex septima (sc. regione caeli).

5 Cat. 4. 18 ff. et inde tot per impotentia freta I erum tulisse, laeva sive dextera | vocaret
aura, sive utrumque Iupiter | simul secundus incidisset in pedem.

6 The stages marked are Mt Kytoros (11 ff.), Amastris in Paphlagonia (13)' tlie
Pontos (9), the Propontis (8 f.), Rhodes (8), the Kyklades (7), and the Adriatic (6 f. )■ BuL
we know that Catullus en route for home made offerings at his brother's tomb in the Troa
(Cat. 65. sff., 6S\ 19ff., 68". 49ff, tor. 1 ff.).

7 Supra p. 155.
 
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