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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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576 Ox-slaughter of Zeus Polieus at Athens

most impressive portion of it1, was called the Bonphonia"1 or 'Ox-
slaughter3.' It took place on the fourteenth day of Skirophorion
a month corresponding roughly with our June—July.

contends that the old dative Ai IloXiet gave rise to the form AiiroXfeia, which
subsequently changed into AuiroXleia to suit the later dative Ait Ho\tei. He holds that 1
like manner the * Aiaurqpia became the Auawr-qpia. The earlier form maybe inferred fi°n
the name of the god's temple Aiaar-^piov (Bekker anecd. i. 91, 6 f. ALo-wr-qpiov ko^0"^1
'A8i)vri<n top vabv rod Swr^pos At6s. ftrrt Si 'Attlkov rb <rx?jytia. Ai7r6Ata yovf k«Xe'T^
eopTTj. k.t.X.) : the later form naturally occurs in the inscriptions, which are a
Hellenistic date. As to the successive terminations AuiroMeta, AinrbXeia, ",t,r
Wackernagel loc. cit. p. 481 compares the series vyida, vyela, vyia (F. Blass ProiiU"cttt
Hon of Ancient Greek trans. W. J. Purton Cambridge 1890 pp. 18, 61, K. Meister
Grammatik der attischen fnschriften'3 Berlin 1900 p. 49 n. 362, G. Meyer Grictht$^
Grammalik3 Leipzig 1896 p. 132 n. 2, A. Thumb in K. Brugmann Gr>^li$C
Grammatik*' Mtinchen 1913 p. 76). ..j,

E. Curtius Attische Stud/en Giittingen 1862 i. 247 proposed to connect AtiroAtt*
the root ire\- and to regard it as the festival of the At7r6Aot or 'Zeus-worshippers-
the term Atir6Aot is nowhere found. Curse'

Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel." p. in n. 2 would render 'the festival of the Plough 1
(ib. p. 23 oto- for Slo-o = diro-). But she later abandoned this derivation.

1 Hesych. s.v. BoiJtijs (Favorin. lex. p. 385, 8)- ...6 rots Att7roAiou to. BovtpbfKi f ^
The two names occur together also in Aristoph. nub. 984 f., Ail. var. hist. 8- 3 ^0\,
tt)v iopTrjv raAoOtrt rat Bou06cta, Hesych. s.v. Boi>0oWa = Souid. s.v. Bovij>6i"a>
Aristoph. nub. 985 = Souid. s.v. Bov<pbvia bis. ^ tjje

That the Bov(pbvta was, to speak strictly, a definite rite which took place ^
festival of the AiwoXUia, is recognised by J. Toepffer Attische Genealogie Ber'm.n fris
p. 149, P. Stengel in Hermes 1893 xxviii. 489, in the Rhein. Mus. 1897 hi. 4°JL]SSOwa
Opferbrduche der Grieche?i Leipzig—Berlin 1910 p. 203, and in Pauly _
Real-Enc. hi. 1055, Suppl. iii. 339 f., L. Deubner Attische Feste Berlin I932 V' .
and the great majority of modern scholars. Mommsen Feste d. Stadt Athen p- 5IZ „age,
p. 517 n. 1) thought that the festival might have been called Ai7r6Ata in official aDs ^gja
Bovtpbvia in popular parlance. H. von Prptt in the Rhein. Mus. 1897 Hi- tQ7 e,rr^j von
Ail. loc. cit. 'dass zwei Berichte iiber zwei Feste zusammengeworfen s'n<^' ^3)
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Der Glaube der Hellenen Berlin 1932 ii. 172 (CP- ' ' '
'die altattischen Atet7r6Ata, Mat/Aa/crTjpta, Bou^ofta' is doubly inexact.

2 Bovtpbvta Aristoph. nub. 985 with schol. ad loc, Ail. var. hist. 8. 3' ^gj^jd.
Bovtpbvia, Hesych. s.v. Bovttjs (Favorin. lex. p. 385, 8), et. mag. p. 2'°> 3°' j j j2l>
Bovtpbvia, Eustath. in II. p. 691, 64. Bovcfyovia Hesych. s.v. (cod.), Bekker an

22. Bov<f>bveia. Souid. s.v. Bov<pbvia (cod. E.). ^Qtl 189+

3 The contention of W. Robertson Smith The Religion of the Semites' j0I1gpjrits °^
(ib.3 London 1927) p. 304 ff. (accepted by Frazer Golden Bough'1 ii- 295' . jjasti'1?'
Corn and Wild ii. 4 ff., Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel? p. 111, N. W. Thomas in J • ^^bvi*
Encycloptcdia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1908 i. 508, and others) tha^ j89?

denotes 'Ox-murder' has been called in question by P. Stengel in the Rhein- ^ ^ f0c.
Hi. 402 (cp. //• 7. 466 (iov<pbveov bk Kara. K\io~las rai Sbpvov Aocto with sc^ Q0Vebtlt
fsovQoveiv iar\v ov to 06eiv 0eots, Aroirov yhp ewl Bvalas </>6vov \tytiv, "^"ggjiin I9I°
/3oDs et's Sdirvov Karao-Kevtiv), in his Opferbrduche der Griechen Leipzig
p. 213 ff., and in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. Suppl. iii. 339 f. staternel\,
4 Schol. Aristoph. pax 419, et. mag. p. 210, 30 ff. The only divergen'^^ ^
is found, among other blunders, in Bekker anecd. i. 238, 21 ff. AuiroAta ll^P ^ ^ frfl))
tUv Att, 17 rat AeCkla. (Bekker cj. Atdtrta) raAetVat, ylvurai 5e if/tr?^ (A. Mom
e?ri 5^ra toO "ZKK-qpoipopiCivo^ (Bekker cj. ~ZKippo<f>opiG>voi) pqvbs.
 
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