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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 holed vessel in Italy 433

hiberna

suspendunt et annus in cura est, vos quidem cotidie pasti statimque pransuri,

alneis et cauponiis et lupanaribus operantibus, aquilicia lovi immolatis, nudipedalia
P°pulo denuntiatis, caelum apud Capitolium quaeritis, nubila de laquearibus exspectatis,
aversi ab ipso et deo et caelo, cp. de ieiun. 16 sed et omnem T<nravo<t>p6vr)<nv ethnici
agnoscunt. cum stupet caelum et aret annus, nudipedalia denuntiantur, magistratus pur-
puras ponunt, fasces retro avertunt, precem indigitant, hostiain instaurant). The stone
JVas drawn by the priests (interp. Serv. in Verg. Am. 3. 175 'manabat,' fluebat. hinc et

P1* nianalis quem trahebant pontifices, quotiens siccitas erat, cp. Varr. ap. Non.

arc- p. 877, 8 ff. Lindsay (cited infra p. 435 n. 2)), and was perhaps drenched with
as a magical or quasi-ma.gica.1 cure for the drought (Folk-Lore 1904 xv. 268 f.). Why
s Particular stone was chosen, we do not know. Was it the sepulchral stile of some
once famous Etruscan water-finder (Varr. Menipp. frag. 444 Bllcheler ap. Non. Marc.
Sj- 97> 16 Lindsay at hoc pacto utilior te Tuscus aquilex) or rain-maker (Frazer Golden
Bough*. The Magic Art i. 310 n. 4)?

G. Wissowa in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 310, id. Rel. Kult. Rom.2 p. 121

11 roves the connexion of aqua-elicium with Iupiter Elicius propounded by O. Gilbert
b eS<il<:,lte vnd Topographie der Stadl Rom im Altertum Leipzig 1885 ii. 154 and accepted

y ■ Aust in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 658, id. in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 2366 f.,
t]^\^,ethe objections of M. H. Morgan 'Greek and Roman Rain-Gods and Rain-Charms' in
ransactions of the American Philological Association 1901 xxxii. 100 ff. (especially
Sat's°5 I was formerly attracted by this view (Folk-Lore 1904 xv. 269), but am now
q ed tnat Iupiter Elicius was essentially a lightning-god, not a rain-god (pace J. B.
ber er deorum Romanornm cognominibus Lipsiae 1898 p. 42, P. Perdrizet in Darem-
S--i5agli0 Diet. Ant. iii. 710). He had an altar on the Aventine (Varr. de ling. Lat.
this* 0un<ied by Numa, whom he had instructed in lightning-lore (Liv. 1. 20). About
5. 1 ar an oa-°- tale was told by Valerius Antias (frag. 6 Peter ap. Arnob. adv. nat.
a d02C^' fast- 3. 285 ff., Plout. v. Num. 15). Numa, at the advice of Egeria, posted
Were en cnaste youths in ambush beside a spring, from which Faunus and Martius Picus
fell int'0n' '° c'1'n'<' ano- further mixed much wine with the water. The gods drank deep,
Oy. > stupor, and were bound fast by the young men (Sir J. G. Frazer in his note on
CaPtured' " 2^ leSar<3s ihe incident as 'probably modelled on' the ruse by which Midas
tneanse>. ^''enos)- Faunus and Martius Picus were thus forced to disclose to the king the
°fi"ered ^ Iupiter could be enticed from heaven to earth. The king thereupon

reveai tlfCU^Ce 0n -Aventine, enticed Iupiter to come down, and pressed him to
'"•cfan e nEnt method of expiating thunderbolts. 'With the head...,' said Iupiter:
'With a j?mon'' added Numa. 'With a human...,' said Iupiter: ' ...hair,' put in Numa.
Agates fo'^"1^ creature,' said the god : 'With a sprat,' concluded the king. And so sur-
^PPaien^ ^ bead anci hair of a live man were found in an onion, a hair, and a sprat
*^ich thj ^ 'hair' suggested a small fish, cp. the use of rptxis, rpixias, rpcxlSwi', etc.),
('u the C/"f

continued to form the ingredients of a lightning-spell (Plout. v. Num. 15)
^lltl>an sa ev' '9°3 xvii. 269 and 270 n. 1 I have discussed the similar mitigation of
P'°n- Hal"„ ? '° Dis and Saturn (Varr. ap. Macrob. Sat. I. 7. 28 ff., r. u. 48 f., cp.

to

u'n. j. " Sracious' mood and the place was called liicium in consequence (Plout. v.

^eaven in'" R°m- t. 19) and to Mania (Macrob. Sat. 1. 7. 34 f.)). Iupiter returned

Jj^'Vopeufl" T°" "e^" <*'re^e<'' '^<J> ycofiemv, tov 5i rbirov 'IXUlov dir' eKeivov
p.°sKlius \fa Later, however, he slew with a thunderbolt Numa's successor, Tullus
T's° f>'ag. m"1,'^ made some slip in the due performance of these rites (L. Calpurnius

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+' Liv. x e er aP- PHn. nat. hist. 2. 140 and frag. 13 Peter ap. Plin. nat. hist. 28

Since the'' A"r' Vict- de viris Mus*- 4- *)•
a!°5 p- Ho) W°°ded slol>e of the Aventine (A. Merlin L'Aventin dans Vantiquiti Paris
^ A,WaS black with the shade of the ilex' (Ov.fast. 3. 295), I conjectured years

..'"Piter 1903 xvii- - 7°. i>>- 1904 xviii. 365 f.) that Iupiter Elicius should rather
S Ja*e that lT^u S°d of the 0ak' (ilex> >liceus' MgimSt iligneus). Prof. Goldmann

Since the ' Vict- de viris illusir- 4- 4)-

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-'ass. fi,
Piter m

'^'ydrcw'J16 Kad .independently hit upon the rendering Elicius,' 'of the Oak.' He

upiter ." '903 xvii. 270, ii. 1904 xviii. 365 f.) that Iupiter Elicius should rather

C. m Wy attentlon to a paragraph by H. Schuchardt in the Zeitschrift fiirromanische

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