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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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468 Apollon and Artemis<br />

Maiandros ; reeds grow tallest <strong>in</strong> the Boeotian Asopos ; and the perseia-Xx^^<br />

loves no water but the water of the Nile. Similarly with regard to the white-<br />

poplar, the poplar, and the wild-olive, it was natural enough for the white-poplar<br />

to grow first on the banks of the Acheron, for the wild-olive to do the same on<br />

the banks of the Alpheios, and for the poplar to be nurtured by the land of the<br />

Keltoi and the Celtic Eridanos.'<br />

Fig. 363.<br />

The <strong>in</strong>terpolator of Servius' commentary on Virgil has preserved<br />

a more romantic version \ Leuke, the daughter of Okeanos, was<br />

loved by Plouton and carried off to the Underworld, where she spent<br />

^ Interp. Serv. <strong>in</strong> Verg. ec/. 7. 61 (probably derived from the commentary of Aelius<br />

Donatus).<br />

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