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Apollon and Artemis
was none other than that 'Road of the Birds,' which in Lithuanian
belief led to the celestial country^ In a word, it was the Milky
Way^ Suspicion becomes certainty, when we take into account the
next batch of references to the Hyperborean land. Pindar in a
magnificent passage of his tenth Pythian^, a poem composed for
Hippokleas of Thessaly in 498 B.C., says of the victor's father:
Babelon— Reinach Monn. gr. d'Js. Min. i. 299 pi. 47, 11 Trajan, 300 pi. 47, 16 f.
M. Aurelius, 301 pi. 47, 11 Faustina Junior, 301 no. 70 Lucius Verus, 302 pi. 47,
24 Septimius Severus ( = my fig. 361), 302 no. 79 lulia Domna, 304 no. 93 Elagabalos,
Fig. 360. Fig. 361.
305 no. 99 lulia Paula, 306 pi. 48, 20 lulia Mamaea, 307 no. 115 Tranquillina, Head
Hist, num.- p. 512. See further L. Stephani in the Compte-rendu St. PH. 1863 p. 82).
Similarly Zeus was on occasion conceived as drawn by a team of eagles [Brit Mus.
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Fig. 362.
Cat. Terracottas p. 451 no. E i7o = my fig. 362 a disk from Tarentum : diameter 2^ ins.),
more often as upborne by a single eagle (supra p. 102 f. figs. 59—64).
1 Supi-a p. 38. 2 lb. ^ Find. Pytk. 10. 27—46.
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