Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 10
the most remarkable innovation of the period remains to bementioned. The gems in question all represent the nude and agile figure, notmerely with well-marked forelock and smooth occiput, but also with a full beard.This can only mean that the verbal misuse of kairos for chronos^ has led to… … Fig. 799. headed god hastening along with a sickle-knife in his hand^. Thus we reach thesingular result that Kairos youngest of the sons of Zeus has actually beentransformed into a figure resembling that of his own grandfather Kronos^, whileby a further surprising coincidence Krd?tos, as we have…
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