Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 428
A.D.?^) interprets the blood-rain sent by Zeus in the I/iad^ to portend the death of Sarpedon^as the tears, not indeed of Zeus, but of the aither^—which amountsto the same thing^. Artists of Roman date represent rain as falling in large gouts ordrops from the hand of Zeus. A bronze coin of Ephesos,… … Fig. 204. Fig. 205. Fig. 206. in the British Museum {supra i. 134 fig. 100) must be added othersin the Cabinet des Medailles at Paris (fig. 204)^ and in the Lobbecke(fig. 205)^^ and Greau (fig. 206)^^ collections—all apparently from thesame dies. Again, an engraved chalcedony of the Graeco-Roman ^…
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