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330 ANCIENT ATHENS.
exist in the time of the AntoDines. From the inscription on No. 2 it
would appear that Augustus Caesar had a chief priest, from which we
may infer that he had many shrines in Attica. The priest mentioned
here was probably he who ministered at the temple of Eoma and
Augustus on the Acropolis, which we shall have to describe further on,
and that by virtue of this office he was arch-priest over the others. On
the next seat, No. 3, we find Hadrian with the title of eXevOepalax;,
apparently for eKevdepeas, genitive of 'EXevOepevs, the stone-cutter
having followed the pronunciation of the at. like e.1 But this would
identify Hadrian with Dionysus as springing from Eleutheras; whereas
it is more probable that it was meant for eXevdepwv, the saviour or
deliverer, an epithet of Zeus as well as of Dionysus. Had 'EXev-
Oepew, the gentile name of a citizen of Eleutherse, now come to be
confounded with eXevOepios? Which it probably might, from both
being epithets of Dionysus.
The following inscriptions down to that on throne No. 3, M, require
no explanation; for of the hieroceryx at No. 5, K, we shall have occasion
to speak when treating of the ceryx panages. The Apollo mentioned
on No. 3, M, with the title of Zosterius, was the god who had a shrine
at Cape Zoster, a promontory midway between Sunium and Phalerum.
Its name was said to be derived from Leto having there loosed her
girdle in preparing for the birth of Apollo and Artemis, which however
did not happen at this place. But Leto and her offspring had an altar
here; and there was also another to Athena, who has sometimes the same
surname. Thus, in an ancient inscription found in the wall of a modern
substruction in the Erechtheium relating to loans from different temples,
we find: 'A&yvalas Zojcrr^pta?.2 Another form of the adjective was
Zostrius (Zoio-Tpto?).3 Euripides was pyrphorus (irvpcpopos)—that is, the
sacrificial priest at the altar of Apollo Zosterius.4 Conspicuous head-
lands were generally the seat of the worship of some deity. We need
only further remark that this is another instance of the honour paid to
1 Which is the modern pronunciation. s Etym. M. voc. foxrnjp; cf. Bekk. An.
Geldart, Mod. Greek Language, p. 25. Gra?c. p. 261, &c.
2 Ap. Rangabe', Ant. Hell. t. ii. No. * Anon, life prefixed to his works.
2253, line 23, p. 945.
exist in the time of the AntoDines. From the inscription on No. 2 it
would appear that Augustus Caesar had a chief priest, from which we
may infer that he had many shrines in Attica. The priest mentioned
here was probably he who ministered at the temple of Eoma and
Augustus on the Acropolis, which we shall have to describe further on,
and that by virtue of this office he was arch-priest over the others. On
the next seat, No. 3, we find Hadrian with the title of eXevOepalax;,
apparently for eKevdepeas, genitive of 'EXevOepevs, the stone-cutter
having followed the pronunciation of the at. like e.1 But this would
identify Hadrian with Dionysus as springing from Eleutheras; whereas
it is more probable that it was meant for eXevdepwv, the saviour or
deliverer, an epithet of Zeus as well as of Dionysus. Had 'EXev-
Oepew, the gentile name of a citizen of Eleutherse, now come to be
confounded with eXevOepios? Which it probably might, from both
being epithets of Dionysus.
The following inscriptions down to that on throne No. 3, M, require
no explanation; for of the hieroceryx at No. 5, K, we shall have occasion
to speak when treating of the ceryx panages. The Apollo mentioned
on No. 3, M, with the title of Zosterius, was the god who had a shrine
at Cape Zoster, a promontory midway between Sunium and Phalerum.
Its name was said to be derived from Leto having there loosed her
girdle in preparing for the birth of Apollo and Artemis, which however
did not happen at this place. But Leto and her offspring had an altar
here; and there was also another to Athena, who has sometimes the same
surname. Thus, in an ancient inscription found in the wall of a modern
substruction in the Erechtheium relating to loans from different temples,
we find: 'A&yvalas Zojcrr^pta?.2 Another form of the adjective was
Zostrius (Zoio-Tpto?).3 Euripides was pyrphorus (irvpcpopos)—that is, the
sacrificial priest at the altar of Apollo Zosterius.4 Conspicuous head-
lands were generally the seat of the worship of some deity. We need
only further remark that this is another instance of the honour paid to
1 Which is the modern pronunciation. s Etym. M. voc. foxrnjp; cf. Bekk. An.
Geldart, Mod. Greek Language, p. 25. Gra?c. p. 261, &c.
2 Ap. Rangabe', Ant. Hell. t. ii. No. * Anon, life prefixed to his works.
2253, line 23, p. 945.