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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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Ritual of the Dipolieia 585

°x and the axe with which he did it, both escaped, the blame being
transferred from them to the knife. Why the Athenians took such
elaborate precautions to ensure the safety of the assailant and his
tool, is a question that must be considered in due course1.

Those that took part in the ritual of the Dipolieia belonged to
three sets of persons known from their respective duties as the
Boiitypd or ' Ox-strikers,' the Kentriddai or ' Goad-men,' and the

auroi or ' Carvers.' Theophrastos seems to have described them
as gene,' clans2.' But Photios speaks of the Kentriddai as ' apatrid
°f Kerykes3'; and this may well be taken to mean 'a family of the

an Kerykes4.' Further, as J. Toepffer pointed out5, the Kerykes
are sa'd on good authority to have performed the solemn functions
°f Mdgeiroi (another name for Daitroz6) and Boutypoi. Hence in
^ Probability A. Mommsen is right, when he contends that the

°utypoiy Kentriddai, and Daitroi, who discharged the priestly
^uties connected with the cult of Zeus Polieus, were three families
a belonging to the great clan of Kerykes7.

The Boutypos, then, was a priest, whose business it was to strike

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a p^* T^s Kpea-vofj,ias yiyvop.kv-r)v Satra.

4 f^0** ^ex* KeirpidSaf TraTptd KtipvKwv {teg. lK.7}p^Kwv).
(L £■ ^e Delphian Labyadai, who seem to have been a phratry rather than a clan
Wpt0, in Pauly_W issowa Real-Enc. xii. 308)—at any rate they swore by Poseidon
several ^ WC" aS ^ Apollon and Zeus TlaTpyos (supra ii. 233 n. 7)—, comprised
no. 2S6^aT'"a' 0r 'families' (j. Baunack in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. ii. 718 ff.
u, V;Jn j'jA 2(> Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr.2 no. 438, a 26 n. 19 on Trarplai [sic),
lQto p uverden Lexicon Graecum suppletorium et dialecticum'1 Lugduni Batavorum
von Prott in the Rhein. Mus. 1897 lii. 195, 197 was mistaken in
3- 75) ^"'a'"pia as necessarily an Ionic word for yivos (on the strength of Hdt. 2. 143,
of theterm a'J°"es'

new ed. of Liddell and Scott p. 1348 distinguishes the two uses
"le f°rrne and 1 family,'1 but unfortunately assigns the Labyadai inscription to

6 j Tr' not latter, heading.
r>" ^ Ma-yc°e'3fer ^&**efe Genealogie Berlin 1889 p. 151 f. cited Athen. 660 A on 6i etiwbv
^''/Co* Ta.t'K^ .fla^e'v ^<TTlv i* t£>i> 'k6i\vi]ai K-qpiKwv. oi5c yap Hayelpui' nal Bovrdiruy
"Ittller)) f <^",(r' KXci&MK* h Upwroyovlat irpilrry (frag. 17 (Frag. hist. Gr. i. 362 f-
^rag, hist^'f-.'^ 42'^ E ^^e'^W>5 W T0^s Mayeipovs KripvK&s <pri<ri ica\e«r0ai (frag. 3
^tthid°gra h 359 Muller))- 0n K-leidemos of Athens (Tertull. de an. 52), the oldest
issoWa ,? , <1>aus- '°- 1=;. 5, cp. Plout. de glor. Athen. 1), see F. Jacoby in Pauly—

k6Xtu &<urp6v ...ol d( yidyupov, AatTpfo- lilayeipos Siaipwv ra Kpia, ij 0 h

(he thre^ ***** d' Stadl Alhe" P* 5" L J' ToePffer °P' P' 140 ff- had supposed
ft iri lhe B yi"r' °f PorPh- a&s/. 2. 30 were merely three 'classes' of officials taking
'his vie%v°Uphonia- But H. von Prott in the A7/«». 1897 lii. 195 f- points out

ls 'nconipatible w ith the use of diro in Porphyrios' sentence (supra n. 2).
 
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