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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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The relation of rain to Zeus 331

to divine interposition1. Later tradition went further and busied
'tself over an attempt to discover whose prayers had been thus
S1gnally answered. Christians asserted that it was the prayers of
converts from Melitene belonging to the 'Thundering' Legion2.
Pagans retorted that it was the prayer of the emperor himself,
whose piety was well-pleasing to the 'Thunderer,'3 or else the

and portents (Dion Cass. 72. 23: W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur*
-Uinchen 1924 ii. 2. 796 n. 11), referred the rain to the magic arts of Arnouphis. Christians
retorted with the assertion that the emperor had prayed, yes, but had prayed in vain. If
iff as^e<^ w^ere this statement is made, Geffcken points us to the forged letter in which
* Aurelius says e^erdaas o%v ^clvtov /cat to 77X77005 to efibv irpbs to /x^ye&os t&v /3ap/3dpwi>
*a ToXefiiiup Kare'dpa/xov els to deois euxeo"#cu irarptgots' dfjLeXoijfievoi 5c vir' avrtov Kai ttjv
CrTe"0Xwp/c«' /iov Oeoip-qo-as t77s dvvdfiews irapacdXeaa roi's vap r\plv Xeyo/ihovs XpiaTiavovs,
•T-X. This document, sometimes dated as late as s. xii a.d., belongs to a much earlier
Period: it perhaps emanated from Asia Minor at the beginning of J. iv ('Auf Kleinasien
u'ete Mommsen hin, hier mag es, Galerius' Edikt benutzend, in der bosen Zeit
^"standen sein, als Licinius mit neuer Verfolgung drohte, als das Schicksal der 40
,egionare den christlichen Osten erregte, als Konstantin die Gebete der Geistlichkeit flir
ln Anspruch nahm—ein letztes Stuck Apologie angesichts der letzten grossen
all • —a hypothesis consistent with its diction and structure, not to mention an apparent
10n to its contents in Rutin, hist. eccl. 5. 5 tradunt historiae cum siti eius (sc.
' Aurelii) periclitaretur exercitus aestuantem et quaerentem quid facto opus esset,
p ISse in legione quadam milites Christianos. Euseb. chron. p. 172 Schoene ( = Chron.

S. T ,' 260

d—261 a (i. 486 f. Dindorf) and vers. Armen. ann. Abr. 2188) followed
fas lus Africanus rather than Apollinaris: hence his omission of the story as to the name
catn Jul""nata. Gregory of Nyssa too omitted that story, but believed that the soldiers
Ha 6 fr°m JkIe'itene- His account (or. in xl mart. 2 (xlvi. 757 c ff. Migne)) was not, as
Dio ' c'a'med, a local tradition, but a rhetorical and in part ridiculous amplification of
Prof S ^escr'Pt'°n. The pagans too could exaggerate. Themistios, Gregory's contemporary,
6 /3a^.S^eS, l° 1uote tne very words of the imperial prayer (or. 15 p. 191 b dvaax^"1 ™ X('P*
oOT-> e^s vP°s top ovpavbv, TaiiTTj, l(p-q, Tjj xelP' T'povTpeif/d/J.riP ac Kai iKircvo-a top fwr/s
tale °f " "** °-<t>u\bn-ov, cp. or. 34. 21). Claudian, the last of the heathen to tell the
3+2 'ff scr'Dmg the storm in a crescendo of high-falutin' phrases (tie VIcons. Honor.

trepjj nulla ducum; nam flammeus imber in hostem | decidit; hunc dorso

""JUefact1 ^Umante ferebat | ambustus sonipes [!]; hie tabescente solutus | subsedit galea
these a<^Ue fulSure cuspis | canduit [! !] et subitis fluxere vaporibus enses [!!!]) attributes

life_aeniarkable effects either to Chaldaean magic or, preferably, to Marcus' blameless

In f ?ncIus'on more improving than impressive.
c°ntine trij6SS to British scholarship it should be added that, long before the start of this
*PPende n C°ntroversy' a f«» hst of the sources had been got together and critical notes

1 sq T^y H- Fynes Clinton Fasti Romani Oxford 1850 ii. 23 fT.

^^Ppdy-q ' ™ornnisen (supra p. 329 n. o). Cp. Dion Cass. 71. 8 verbs iroXds ovk dOed
*Web. ch IO ^%aT6 T€ avrb ws Kai napd dcou Xa^dvav, Kai rrj yepovala kiriaTtCKev,
hiveTo an^"' P' 172 Schoene (= Chron. Pasch. 261 a (i. 487 Dindorf) cVft>os ck rod ffeov
(=* Hieron -""^i Ar'"en. ann. Abr. 2188 pluvia missa est (venit a Deo)), p. 173 Schoene

2 Apoli'!" .Euseb- ann- Abr- -^9 pluvia divinitus missa est).

^'gne), Xi'vr05 °P' Euseb' hist- eccl- 5- 5- 4. Greg- Nyss- or- in xl mart- 2 <xlvi- 75? c ff-

3 lu'l. c mos aP- Dion. Cass. 7i.'9,lKedren. hist. comp. 250 c—D (i. 439 Bekker).
wpra p apit> v- M. Ant. philos. 24. 4 (supra p. 330 n. o), oracl. Sib. 12. 196 ff. Geffcken
C°Hs- Honor Themist- or. 15 p. ,gi g (supra pp. 327 n. 2, 331 n. o), Claud, de VI
«iererj 1 349 f- seu, quod reor, omne Tonantis | obsequium Marci mores potuere
 
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