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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Rain of stones

fall of pumice or scoriae thrown up from some re-opened vent would
be viewed as an omen directly indicating the will of Iupiter.

Later showers of stones1, ashes2, or the like3, though on occasion

1 217 B.C. Hot stones fell from the sky at Praeneste (Liv. 22. 1).
216 A rain of stones on the Aventine at Rome and at Aricia (Liv. 22. 36).
215 A rain of stones round the temple of Iuno Sospila at Lanuvium (Liv. 23- 3'1)'
2T2 A rain of stones for two days on the Alban Mount (Liv. 25. 7).
211 A rain of stones at Eretum (Liv. 26. 23).

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207 Stones fell from the sky at Veii, and again there was a rain of stones on

Armilustrum at Rome (Liv. 27. 37).
194 A rain of stones in the territory of Hadria (Liv. 34. 45).
188 Showers of stones on the Aventine (Iul. Obs. 56 = 2).
186 A rain of stones in Picenum (Iul. Obs. 59 = 4).

169 A rain of stones at Reate (Liv. 43. 13). At the close of the same year st0 ^

fell simultaneously in the ager Romanus and in the ager Veiens (Liv. 44'
152 A rain of stones at Aricia (Iul. Obs. 77 = 18).

94 A rain of stones on a farm of the Vestini (Iul. Obs. 111 = 51).

52 Infra n. 3.

41 A rain of stones (C. Lycosthenes (K. Wolffhart) Prodigiorum ac

chronicon Basileae 1557 p. 228). ^

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57 a.d. A rain-storm followed by the fall of white and black stones at Ahmed
near Koufah (an Arabic MS. of Ibn-al-Athir quoted by E. Quatre^
Mimoires gilographiques et historiques sur V ligypte, et sur quelques c

voisines Paris 1811 ii. 487). ^is
So far as Italy is concerned, the decreasing number of entries rather suggests til
particular form of volcanic activity had petered out before the beginning of our era.
- 87 b.c. A rain of ashes at Athens (Paus. 9. 6. 6). ,. 514

473 a.d. A rain of fiery dust or ashes at Byzantion (Kedren. hist. comp. 35° *L\ ^
Bekker), Glykas ami. 4. 264 a (p. 489 Bekker), Zonar. 14- 1 ^ rain
Dindorf). Theophan. chronogr. p. 103 (i. 185 Classen) refers ^A,p.
of fiery dust to the year of Leon i's death, which he places in 4 ^ ^x
C. Lycosthenes (K. Wolffhart) op. cit. p. 296 dates it in the secon6o 3 g.
of Leon i, 462 a.d. (!), cp. Nikephor. eccl. hist. 15. 20

(CXIVK-

Migne). Prokop. de Bell. Goth. 6. 4. 27 and Marcellin. ComyesUvius-
ami. 472 (li. 931 c Migne) attribute the fall to an eruption of -jjgne)
The menologium Basilianum for Nov. 6 p. 170 (cxvii. j47
says that the ashes fell glowing hot and burnt up iravra ra (p"Ta
3 214b.c. A rain of chalk at Cales (Liv. 24. 10).

194 A rain of earth on several occasions at Rome (Liv. 34. 45)'

190 A rain of earth at Tusculum (Liv. 37. 3, Iul. Obs. 55 = I)-

172 A rain of earth at Auximum (Liv. 42. 20).

167 A rain of earth at Anagnia (Liv. 45. 16, Iul. Obs. 70= n)-

166 A rain of earth at many places in Campania (Iul. Obs. 71 -

133 A rain of earth at Ardea (Iul. Obs. 86 = 27a).

101 A rain of clay on the Aventine at Rome (Iul. Obs. i04 = 44a)>
98 A rain of white chalk in the theatre (Iul. Obs. 107 = 47)- , bto0d tfeD
52 At Rome 'many thunderbolts, many clods, stones, shards an

flying through the air' (Dion Cass. 40. 47). estent-tfC?'"il
50 Arain of bakedtilesat Rome (Plin. not. hist, i- 147. cp-Lyd. tie ^ n
6 p. 13, 12IT. Wachsmuth KaT-n^x^'"' si txw<" 7rox>iak
k6vls, uo-irep iiri Tifyuvos rod ko.6' ii/xas). ch°sl <7'"1"

860 a.d. Blood-red dust fell from the sky at Byzantion ([Georg. Mon
5. 3. 15 (ex. 1048c—J049A Migne)).