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TNSCBIPTIONS ON THRONES EXPLAINED.
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that Apollo, after slaying the Python, crowned himself with laurel.1
This title does not often appear, but it is mentioned by Plutarch f and
there was a 8a<f>vr)<j}opelov, or fane of Apollo Daphnephorus at Phyle, if
we should not rather read Phlya.3 With regard to Dionysus Auloneus,
throne No. 2, this is, we believe, the only instance in which that epithet
occurs. There was a place called Aulon,4 in the district of Laurium,
but we are not aware that it was celebrated for the worship of Dionysus.
The form av\a>vev<i, however, can hardly come from anything else. We
have already seen several instances, and we shall meet with more, of
rural priests being admitted to the same honours as the metropolitan.
Such were the priests of Artemis at Myrrhinus, of Nemesis at Ehamnus,
and apparently also the Apollo just mentioned at Phyle. Of the stone-
bearer who occupied throne No. 3 in this compartment we can give no
account. He probably bore a sacred stone in some procession. In seat
No. 5 one of the Buzygse again appears as the priest of Zeus Teleios,
or the perfecter. In a more special sense this epithet referred to Zeus
as bringing marriage to a happy conclusion.5 Plutarch, in his ' Con-
jugal Precepts,' after mentioning the three sacred ploughings to which
we have before alluded when explaining the inscription on the throne
of the priest of Zeus in the Palladium,6 adds: " But of all these the
most sacred is the marriage ploughing for the sake of children."7
Whence we may infer, as Otto Jahn observes,8 that this priest was also
concerned in the ceremony of marriage. The other seats in this com-
partment require no explanation.
Proceeding now to the left hand of the priest of Dionysus, we find
in compartment H, No. 1, the seat of a hieromnemon. The hiero-
mnemones, according to Plutarch,9 were priests of Poseidon. The Am-
phictyonic Assembly, as we have already observed (p. 176), continued to
1 Tertull. De Corona, 7; supra, p. 217
* In Them. 15.
8 A then. x. 24.
4 Bekk. An. Gr. p. 206; ^Esch.
Timarch.
6 Schol. Aristoph. Thesm. 973.
* Supra, p. 325.
TovruiV be iravratv teporaros eartv o
yaprjXws (TJvopos Kai tiporos nrl Italian?
TfKvoxrei.—t. vi. p. 544, Reiske.
8 Nuove memorie dell' Institute, 1865,
p. 5, n. 5.
* Sympos. vii. p. 914, Eeiske.
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that Apollo, after slaying the Python, crowned himself with laurel.1
This title does not often appear, but it is mentioned by Plutarch f and
there was a 8a<f>vr)<j}opelov, or fane of Apollo Daphnephorus at Phyle, if
we should not rather read Phlya.3 With regard to Dionysus Auloneus,
throne No. 2, this is, we believe, the only instance in which that epithet
occurs. There was a place called Aulon,4 in the district of Laurium,
but we are not aware that it was celebrated for the worship of Dionysus.
The form av\a>vev<i, however, can hardly come from anything else. We
have already seen several instances, and we shall meet with more, of
rural priests being admitted to the same honours as the metropolitan.
Such were the priests of Artemis at Myrrhinus, of Nemesis at Ehamnus,
and apparently also the Apollo just mentioned at Phyle. Of the stone-
bearer who occupied throne No. 3 in this compartment we can give no
account. He probably bore a sacred stone in some procession. In seat
No. 5 one of the Buzygse again appears as the priest of Zeus Teleios,
or the perfecter. In a more special sense this epithet referred to Zeus
as bringing marriage to a happy conclusion.5 Plutarch, in his ' Con-
jugal Precepts,' after mentioning the three sacred ploughings to which
we have before alluded when explaining the inscription on the throne
of the priest of Zeus in the Palladium,6 adds: " But of all these the
most sacred is the marriage ploughing for the sake of children."7
Whence we may infer, as Otto Jahn observes,8 that this priest was also
concerned in the ceremony of marriage. The other seats in this com-
partment require no explanation.
Proceeding now to the left hand of the priest of Dionysus, we find
in compartment H, No. 1, the seat of a hieromnemon. The hiero-
mnemones, according to Plutarch,9 were priests of Poseidon. The Am-
phictyonic Assembly, as we have already observed (p. 176), continued to
1 Tertull. De Corona, 7; supra, p. 217
* In Them. 15.
8 A then. x. 24.
4 Bekk. An. Gr. p. 206; ^Esch.
Timarch.
6 Schol. Aristoph. Thesm. 973.
* Supra, p. 325.
TovruiV be iravratv teporaros eartv o
yaprjXws (TJvopos Kai tiporos nrl Italian?
TfKvoxrei.—t. vi. p. 544, Reiske.
8 Nuove memorie dell' Institute, 1865,
p. 5, n. 5.
* Sympos. vii. p. 914, Eeiske.