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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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950 General Conclusions with regard to

Bound1 scoffs at "the crude Hesiodic2 idea of Dike acting as court-
assessor to Zeus, but in the Trozades3 still couples his name with hers:

O Earth's Upbearer on the Earth enthroned,

Whoe'er thou mayest be, hard to guess or know,

Zeus, be thou Nature's Law or Mind of Man,

To thee I pray; for stepping silently

Thou lead'st all mortal things on the path of Justice.

Orphic teaching represented both Dike4 and Nomos5aspdredroi of
Zeus. And the eclectic author of the pseudo-Aristotelian work
On the Universe {s. i B.C.)6, after quoting with approval an Orphic
hymn to Zeus, concludes his treatise with the words7:

' God, then, as the old story has it, holding the beginning and the end and the
middle of all things that exist, proceeding by a straight path in the course of

1 Eur. frag. 506 Nauck2 ap. Stob. eel. 1. 3. 14° p. 54, 12 ff. Wachsmuth SoKelre
irrjbdv TadLKTjpaT els Beovs j TTTepoLO'i, K&ireiT' iv Albs diXrov irTVXats \ ypdepeev tlv' avrd,
TiTjVOi d' elaopuivra viv \ Bvtjtols 5iKa£eiv; oi)5' 6 rrds &v odpavbs | Aids ypdtpovTos rds fipor&v
dpaprias \ e^apK^aeiev ovS' tnztvos av vkottCiv \ Tre'fnretv eKaarip fyiilav dXX' 7) AIktj \
ivravBd irovoTiv eyyvs, el floiXeoB' bpav. Cp. Deut. 30. nff. 'For this commandment

which I command thee this day____It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall

go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?...
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest
do it.'

2 Hes. o.d. 258 ff.

3 Eur. Tro. 884 ff. EK. w yT\s bxvP-z Ka-rrl yijs '^xwv HHpav, \ ocrris tot' el crti, dvarbrr'
a<7Tos elb'e'vai, ] Zefo, etr avdyKi} tpvaeos etre vovs ftporwv, \ rr poo^v^dp.-qv ere • irdvTa yaP
di' dipotpov I fialvwv KeXevdov Kara 81k7}v rd Bvtjt' dyeis.

i Orph. frag. 23 Kern ap. pseudo-Dem. c. Aristog. 1. 11 (on the spurious character
of this speech see W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur6 Munchen 1912 i. 601
n. 1) Kal tt)v dirapa'iTTjTov Kal aep.vi)v AIktjv, rjv 6 rds dytoirdras 7)puv reXerds Karadel^
'Op<peus rrapd rbv rod Albs Bpbvov tpTjirl Ka8rjp.hr)v irdvTa rd twv dvBpdroiv i(f>opdv, «J
avTov i-KaffTOv vop.io~avTa /3X^7retr ovto) bet i/^0/feer(?cu, (pvXaTTbp.evov Kal rrpoopoipLevov ^
Karaiax^aL ravTTjv, k.t.X., cp. Orph. h. Dik. 62. I ff. bp\p.a AUrjS p.4Xxo} rravdepKeoSi
dyXaofibpcpov, [ fj Kal Zyvbs avaKTOs iirl Bpbvov lepbv i'fet | oipavbBev KaBopuaa fllov Bvf)T^
iroXvtpuXojv, I k.t.X.

See further G. Caramia 'Chi e la dea BA2IAEIA negli Uccelli di Aristofane?' in *'ie
Rivista Indo-Grcco-Italica di filologia, lingua, antichita 1925 ix. 203 ff., who

conclude

that Basileia [supra p. 60 n. 5) was Dike the iripebpos Aibs (Soph. O.C. 1381 f., An'iaI>'
4. 9. 7), and F. Ribezzo 'La AIkt) irdpebpos Atbs degli Orfici' in the same Rivista 19''
ix. 209 f., who regards the three functions of Basileia—evftovXla, eivofila, <ro>0/""r1""'
(Aristoph. av. 1539 f.)—as those of an Orphic Dike.

6 Orph. frag. 160 Kern ap. Prokl. z'»Plat. Alcib. 1 p. 499, 2 Cousin2 -waXiv, eireibv .
ij irpb tov k6(T/aou AIktj avvi-ireTaL to? Ad (vdpedpos yap 6 Nbfios toD Ai6s, (Us fiycnv b 'Op<P^ ^
and ap. Prokl. in Plat. Tim. i. 315, 8 ff. Diehl iv he r<J Yopylq (523 a) trvvTdTroiv re aVf
(sc. t6v Ala) toU KpovLbais Kal itjaip&v dw' avTwv, Iva Kal irpb twv rptwv y Kal fiertX'l ^
utt' auT&v, Kal rbv TSbp.ov at)rw o~vyKadt.bpvojv, wffirep Kal b 'Op0e^s* Kara yap ras ^JTr0 ^
tt}S Nukt6s Kal Trap' £Keivip irdpebpov 7roi«rat Tbv ~Nbp.ov • e'Ti 8e ttjv AIktjv bXfjV ^7I"tI
auTov TiBepevos iv N6^i0ts (4. 7i6a), wtrirep Kal 6 BeoXbyos. ^eIi

6 W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litterature Mtinchen 1912 i. 736, MnllC
1920 ii. 1. 376.

7 [Aristot.] de mundo 7. 401 b 24 ff. trans. E. S. Forster.
 
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