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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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Artemis and the Oak 413<br />

Troizen, stood a sanctuary of Artemis Sarom's, whose cult-epithet<br />

can be taken to mean 'the Gnarled Oak^' If so, the implication is<br />

that some <strong>ancient</strong> trunk was viewed as her very embodiments<br />

Tradition said that the cult had been founded by a woodland k<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

Saron the hunter, who met his death by pursu<strong>in</strong>g a doe* or a boar*<br />

<strong>in</strong>to the sea and lay buried <strong>in</strong> the prec<strong>in</strong>ct of his goddess^. Saron,<br />

we may suppose", stood to Artemis Sarom's' <strong>in</strong> much the same<br />

' Schol. Kallim. h. <strong>Zeus</strong> 22 capiiiviba^ : 5p0s" wapa. ro aea-qpoTa Kal (jwiffTpajxixevov tov<br />

tpXoiov ^x^"*) Hesych. s.v. aapuvides' ir^rpat. t) 01 5td TraXaioTTjTa /cex'?''wa' dpves (cp. id.<br />

s.7J7>. aopwvh' iXarr; TraXaici and aupwvh' eXart). KalnoXis. M. Schmidt remarks : ^ aopojvLs<br />

Dorismus est Melius pro trapwi/i?.' See now K. Brugmann—A. Thumb Griecktsche Gram-<br />

matik^ Mi<strong>in</strong>chen 1913 p. 84), et. gen. <strong>in</strong> E. Miller Mdlaiiges de littirature grccque Paris<br />

1868 p. 264 crapaictj koX ij SpOs 5ia t6 cnaTjpivaL' ^ aopovls (/eg. ffopuivU) dia rb e^ avTwv<br />

aopovs yiveaffai, et. Gud. p. 496, 32 f. aapicvis, ij 5pvs, Sia to aeaeipevai {/eg. (Tea-qpei'aL)- 7)<br />

(Tujpaii'ts {/ef. (Topiiivh) 8ia to e'f auriSc aupovs (/eg. aopovs) ylveaOac, et. mag. p. 709, 5 koX<br />

capwvides, ai KolXai 8pv(s (^^Favor<strong>in</strong>. /ex. p. 1636, 34). The word occurs <strong>in</strong> an elegiac<br />

fragment published by B. P. Cirenfell—A. S. Hunt <strong>in</strong> T/ie Oxyrhyiichus Papyri London<br />

1898 i. 37<br />

f. no. 14, 10 ]o (rapcjvidas ovdas eye[' Kallim. /i. <strong>Zeus</strong> 22 f. rj iroWas i

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