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lower drums aright, we must view them from the front, bearing in
ap. Euseb. chroji. i. 22. 6 (p. 120 ed. A. I\Iai—
J. Zohrab), cp. Loukian. de calntmi. 16,
supra i. 709 n. 1), M. Antonius the trititiivir (Veil. Pat. 2. 82. 4, cp. Sokrates of
Rhodes y;v?/. i {Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 326 Miiller) ap. Athen. 148c, Eustath. in II. p. 776,
30 f-), Caligula (Philon de legat. ad Cai. 12, Athen. 148 D, Eustath. in II. p. 776, 29 f.),
and probably Hadrian (E. L-. Hicks The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the
British Museicm Oxford 1890 iii. 2. 161 no. 600, 46). Demetrios Poliorketes too had
posed as Dionysos (Plout. v. Demetr. 2), as had Antiochos vi, son of Alexandros i Balas
{Brit. Mils. Cat. Coins Seleucid Kings of Syria p. 63 ff. pi. 19, i—3, 5— 14, Hunter Cat.
Coins iii. 728". pi. 68, 2— 10, Head Hist, num.- p. 766 f. fig. 337) ; and in later times
Antinoos {supra i. 714 n. 6, cp. Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycaonia, etc. pp. Ixxxix, 189
NGniAKXfl on a copper of Tarsos) and various scions of the imperial house {supra i.
7J4f ) were represented as Dionysos incarnate. That Nero claimed to be Dionysos is not,
I think, recorded by any ancient authority : but his worship, like that of other emperors
(see W. Quandt De Baccho ab Alexandri aetate in Asia Minore culto Halis Saxonum
1913 p. 275), might be associated with the worship of Dionysos [e.g. Corp. inscr.
Att. iii. I no. 158 [Atoviycry 'E\]€i/^€piet
KoX [N^pojci] K\au3t(jj KatVapi 2e[/ia(7Ty
Vep/xaviKijj K.T.X.]), and he takes on occasion
the role of Zeus EleuthMos (fig. 55 is a / > *^L-f ,/^(iT*\
copper of Sikyon (this attribution was first
made by F. Imhoof-BIumer in the Kevue
Suisse de nuinismatique 1896 vi. 240,
1897 vii. 40, cp. R. Mtinsterberg in the
Num. Zeitschr. 191 1 iv. 122) from my col-
Fig. 5 =
lection: obv. NE-KAI-SE YC-eAEY0EPIOC- head of Nero to right; rev.
ETTir(atou)- IOY(Xioi;) TTOAYAINOY-AA (for hvavhpiKovl) Q,\{kvwAwv) emperor
on horseback to left. So Inscr. Gr. sept, i no. 2713, 41, 49, 51 f. = Dittenberger Syll.
inscr. Gr?' no. 376, 41 Akraiphia [Nepwi'] Zeus 'EXeu^^ptoj, 49 Aa 'EXevdepiif) [N^ptoj/]i,
51 f [N^ptovos] Aids I
'EXevdeplov,
cp. Corp. inscr. Att. iii. i no. 1085, 3 f. Similarly
Theophanes, the friend of Cn. Pompeius Magnus, in Inscr. Gr. ins. ii no. 163 5, iff.
Mytilene [d'\iw A[a 'EXeii^ellpico 'i'iXoTrd.rpiSi |
Qeo(pa.vij
tu crai|r')jpt Kai evepy^lra Kai KTia-ra
Sei'JTfpw tSs irdTpi5os = C. T. Newton The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the
British Museum Oxford 1883 ii. 47 f no. 211— Collitz— Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. i. 373
no. 1720 A' = Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr.- no. 339. Augustus in Corp. inscr. Gr. iii
no. 4715,
I Denderah UTr^p avTOKparopos Kaicrapos, deov vlod, Aibs ^"EXevdepiov 'SefiacrTov
K.T.X. ^Dittenberger Orient. Gr. inscr. sel. no. 659, i, S. de Ricci in the Archiv ficr
Papyrusforschung und vcrwandte Gebiete 1903 ii. 431 no. 8 '^cx.'icapa, avTOKparopa deov
vlbu Aia 'E[Xev]depiov 'Ze^aarov, Corp. inscr. Gr. iii no. 4923,
fxiSovTL Kai aTreipiAiv Kpareovrc \
Zavi,
twl eV Zavos Trarpds, 'EXei/^epiw, j
i ff. Philai 'Kalaapi. ttovto-
SeaTrdrai
Ei'pcuTras
re /cat "AcriSos, darpwi a-rrdaas \ 'EXXdSos, (6s) iTcor(rj)p Zeii(s) d!'(e)r(«)X[e] fjL^yas, k.t.X.
= Cougny Anth. Pal. Append, i. 159. iff., Inscr. Gr. ins. ii no. 156 Mytilene avTO-
KpaTopi I
Kaiaapi
Se'/SacrrcD |
'EXe[i;j^epi'cj],
G. Cousin and G. Deschamps in the Bull.
Corr. Hell. 1887 xi. 306 ff. no. r, 5 ff. Kys in Karia 'Eparo^ctcr/s Xapeivou 'PoSios 6 ei'ea'Tibs
(!T€(^a.\vr\