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Zetes and Kalais
princely twins, themselves surmounted by the same Dioscuric
device (figs. 349— 35 0'-
Whether the dyarchy of the Phoenician siifetes^ was similarly
related to a cult of Phoenician Twins, is a question more easily
asked than answered. In any case it need not here detain us.
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Zetes and Kalais.
Confining ourselves to the Greek area, we note that Kastor and
Polydeukes were not the only pair of Twins differentiated out of
the divine Sky. Boreas, the bifrontal^ wind-god of Thrace, whom
we have already compared with Zeus^, became by Oreithyia,
daughter of Erechtheus, the father of two winged sons, Zetes and
Kalaisl Their names were explained by the ancients as alluding
to foul and fair .weather respectively : Zetes
was rendered ' Very
Blowy, Blustery,' and Kalais, ' Fair-blowing^.' The former etymology
might indeed pass muster'^, but the latter is impossible^
Rather we should suppose that Kalais was the Thracian equivalent
of the Phrygian Kalaos, father of Attes". Be that as it may,
^ Stevenson—Smith—Madden Diet. Rom. Coins p. 914 fig. ( = my fig. 349), Cohen
Monn. emp. rom. vi. 178 f. no. 7 pi. 4 ( = my fig. 351), ib."^ vii. 322 n. i, 330 f. nos. 15 fig.,
16 fig., 17— 21, 22 fig. Fig. 350 is from a specimen in my collection : V\X^ —pemtssiun
Lugduni, ox pecunia Lugdmtetisis. Cp. Rasche Lex. Num. iv. 1888 'supra lupam duo
astra, fausti ominis ergo, vti Castor et Pollux repraesentare (j/V) solent.'
^ Liibker Reallex.^ p. 998. * Supra p. 380.
* Supra i. 142 n. 10, ii. 444.
' Simonid. y>-a^. 3 Bergk^ a/, schol. Ap. Rhod. i. 211 f. and Eudok. viol. 1021, Ap.
Rhod. I. 211 f., Apollod. 3. 15. 2, Orph. Arg. 218 ff., Ov. 7net. 6. 702 ff., Wy^^.fab. 14,
Serv. in Verg. Acn. 3. 209, ro. 350, Myth. Vat. i. 26, i. 27, I. 204, 2. 142, cp. 3. 5. 5.
® Ei. Gud. p. 231, 40 ff. ZijTTjs, 6 nios Boppci...7rapd to fa Ka.1 rh Trviui, 6 fifydXws irviiav.
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