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)

308 Rain-magic in ancient Greece

deeply incised inscription reads:

onANOAAHNxAipeTeN^N* ai kaAa IKefcKe^

nePxrE

6 Udv, 6 M.rjv, ^cupere Nw^ai KaXai. we, Kve, virep^ve1.

Pan, Men, and ye fair Nymphs, all hail!—
Rain ! Conceive, conceive abundantly!

The association of Men with Pan and the Nymphs is noteworthy-
The same triad appears on a votive relief of Pentelic (?) marble found
in or near Athens (fig. 198)2, which might almost serve as an illustra-

Fig. 198.

1 A mistake for vwepKiie. 11. Giintert, however, in his interesting treatise U» ^
wortbildungen im arischen und altgriechischen Heidelberg 1914 p. 217 *■ . fluence
vTtipxve was a new formati°n from on the analogy of Be tctie and under the rn^
of KexVTaL> XVT°S> etc- ^n any case we can hardly infer, with F. Lenormant,
word formed part of the original Eleusinian formula. . j^x-

- P. Perdrizet in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 77 f. no. 1 fig. 5, W. Drexler in RcW* ^
Myth. ii. 2731 with fig. 10, Stai's Marbres el Bronzes: Athbies'1 p. 248 n° jith'
Einzelaafnahmen no. i2482 = no. 125410 with Text v. 22 f. by E. Ldwy, Svor
Nationalmus. p. 443 no. 1444 pi. 72 ( = my fig. 198).