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be itself one of the same happy kindred, brought low by 'Fate and
star-flung Thunderbolt'.' In the oldest and most accurate of the
tablets, which is inscribed with fourth-century characters and com-
posed throughout in the dialect of Thourioi, the speaker goes on to
say :
I have flown out of the sorrowful weary Round ;
I have entered with quick feet upon the lovely Crown ^.
Did. Atit. ii. 849 f., O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 86i—869. Supra i. 212,
221 (?). Cp. Zeus Ei^jSoi'XeM (supra i. 669 n. 2, 717 n. 3, infra § 3
improbable that here, as in Orph. h. Pliers. 29. 8, h. Dion. 30. 6, h. triet. 52. 4, the
name Ei)/3oi;X6i;s, properly belonging to the nether Zeus, is transferred to his son Dionysos
(J. H. Wieten op. cit. p. 27 ff.)- The Queen with Eukles and Eubouleus would thus
make up the triad Mother + Father + Son.
' Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 641 i, 5 ff. d\(X)a /xe Mo(r)pa ^5a/xacr((r)€ |
dXXoi Kai do-|