Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 645
t {e.g. supra i. 116n. 8 fig. 85, ii. 962 n. 2 with i. 134 fig. 100), or at least seated (F. Imhoof-Blumer in the/ahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1888 iii. 289 f. pi. 9, 18 ( = my fig. 327) a bronze coinof Laodikeia on the Lykos (Plin. nat. hist. 5. 105 appellata primo Diospolis), struck… … Pyre-extinguishing rain 517 So much for the evidence of the vases. They portray the crisis of the drama, when Alkmene appeals from Amphitryon to Zeus, and a helpful thunderstorm extinguishes the pyre. But Plautus Amphitruo at once clears up the antecedents of the scene and provides it with a…
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