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INSCRIPTIONS ON THRONES EXPLAINED. 327
this body was chosen a priest of the god who was their especial patron.1
Of the remaining seats in this compartment we may only remark of
the fifth, that a priest of Eucleia and Eunomia is frequently men-
tioned in inscriptions. We have already noticed a temple of Eucleia
in the agora, near the Eleusinium (supra, p. 225). Eunomia, one of
the Horas, appears to have been worshipped at Athens along with her
sisters Thallo and Carpo; but little seems to be known about her. To
Thallo were accorded the same honours as to Pandrosos.2
Of the priest of the Muses, to whom the second throne of the next
compartment, E, was appropriated, we are unable to give any precise
account. The Muses had temples on the Ilissus and in the Academy;
the hill called Museium was dedicated to them, and in every school
was a place containing images of them.3 Thus they were perhaps even
more popular than the Graces. The epithet of <f>i\io<; applied to Zeus
on throne No. 3 is equivalent to eTaipeio<;, and characterizes him as the
god of friendship and good fellowship.4 In this character he is found
represented with the attributes of Dionysus; and Pausanias describes
an image of him in which he had on cothurni, and held in one hand a
cup, in the other a thyrsus, on the top of which, however, sat an eagle.5
The word <f>aiBwrij<;, which we find inscribed on throne No. 5 of this
compartment, occurs only in inscriptions ; in codices it is always written
<f>aiBpvvTi'j<;. We find the form <£aiSwW)9 again on throne No. 2, com-
partment F; also in an inscription contained in the Athenian Philistor 6
—6 <f>aiSwTT)<; rolv deolv; and in another in Boeckh's ' Corpus Inscrip-
tionum Grsecarum,' where the editor would insert ap;' and in spite of
these repeated instances, it is probably an error of the stone-cutter. The
Eleans conferred upon the descendants of Pheidias the care of cleansing
the statue of Zeus at Olympia, whence they were called (fteuSpwrai.
Before beginning the task, they sacrificed to Athena Ergane. As the
1 Cf. Polyb. xvi. 21, 8 (t. iii. p. 299). eraipeios on ndvras avBpanrovs £vvayti k<h
2 Pausan. ix. 35, 1. jHovkerai tivai aWrfKois <j>i\iovs. Dio
5 iEschin. c. Timarch. p. 35, Reiske,and Chrys. Orat. i. p. 9 (Teub.); cf. Orat. xii.
scholia. p. 237.
* See his attributes described in Arist- 5 Paus. viii. 31, 2.
ides, Orat. i. in Jovem, end : tpiKios S« Kai * t. ii. 238, Hue 13. 7 No. 446.
this body was chosen a priest of the god who was their especial patron.1
Of the remaining seats in this compartment we may only remark of
the fifth, that a priest of Eucleia and Eunomia is frequently men-
tioned in inscriptions. We have already noticed a temple of Eucleia
in the agora, near the Eleusinium (supra, p. 225). Eunomia, one of
the Horas, appears to have been worshipped at Athens along with her
sisters Thallo and Carpo; but little seems to be known about her. To
Thallo were accorded the same honours as to Pandrosos.2
Of the priest of the Muses, to whom the second throne of the next
compartment, E, was appropriated, we are unable to give any precise
account. The Muses had temples on the Ilissus and in the Academy;
the hill called Museium was dedicated to them, and in every school
was a place containing images of them.3 Thus they were perhaps even
more popular than the Graces. The epithet of <f>i\io<; applied to Zeus
on throne No. 3 is equivalent to eTaipeio<;, and characterizes him as the
god of friendship and good fellowship.4 In this character he is found
represented with the attributes of Dionysus; and Pausanias describes
an image of him in which he had on cothurni, and held in one hand a
cup, in the other a thyrsus, on the top of which, however, sat an eagle.5
The word <f>aiBwrij<;, which we find inscribed on throne No. 5 of this
compartment, occurs only in inscriptions ; in codices it is always written
<f>aiBpvvTi'j<;. We find the form <£aiSwW)9 again on throne No. 2, com-
partment F; also in an inscription contained in the Athenian Philistor 6
—6 <f>aiSwTT)<; rolv deolv; and in another in Boeckh's ' Corpus Inscrip-
tionum Grsecarum,' where the editor would insert ap;' and in spite of
these repeated instances, it is probably an error of the stone-cutter. The
Eleans conferred upon the descendants of Pheidias the care of cleansing
the statue of Zeus at Olympia, whence they were called (fteuSpwrai.
Before beginning the task, they sacrificed to Athena Ergane. As the
1 Cf. Polyb. xvi. 21, 8 (t. iii. p. 299). eraipeios on ndvras avBpanrovs £vvayti k<h
2 Pausan. ix. 35, 1. jHovkerai tivai aWrfKois <j>i\iovs. Dio
5 iEschin. c. Timarch. p. 35, Reiske,and Chrys. Orat. i. p. 9 (Teub.); cf. Orat. xii.
scholia. p. 237.
* See his attributes described in Arist- 5 Paus. viii. 31, 2.
ides, Orat. i. in Jovem, end : tpiKios S« Kai * t. ii. 238, Hue 13. 7 No. 446.