[19\3: ~Dio\s Amphiara/ou hiero/n~ (at Oropos): [Dicaearch.] _Descr. Gr._ i, § 6 (i, 100 Mü.). Even Hyperides in the speech for Euxenippos refers throughout to Amph. at Oropos as a god. Amph. in Or. ~ho theo/s~ (1st-2nd cent. B.C.): _IGS._ i, 3498; 412; _CIG._ 1570a, 25, 30, 52. Liv. 45, 27, 10 (in Oropos) pro deo vates antiquus colitur. Cic. _Div._ i, 88: Amphiaraum sic honoravit fama Græciæ, deus ut haberetur. Plutarch also, speaking of the embassy sent by Mardonios to the ancient Theban oracle, calls Amph. ~theo/s~: _DO._ 5, p. 412 A. Acc. to Paus. 1, 34, 2, however, Amph. was first honoured as a god in Oropos.] [20\3: Origen is expressing it in his own way, but he is quite right in principle when he distinguishes the local gods remaining in the countryside from the gods of Olympos, _Cels._ iii, 35 fin.: ~mochthêrô=n daimo/nôn kai\ to/pous epi\ gê=s prokateilêpho/tôn, epei\ tê=s katharôte/ras ou du/nantai epha/psasthai chô/ras kai\ theiote/ras~. He says of Asklepios, 5, 2 (p. 169 L.), ~theo\s me\n a\n ei/ê aei\ de\ lachô\n oikei=n tê\n gê=n kai\ hôsperei\ phuga\s tou= to/pou tô=n theô=n~.] [21\3: ~Dio\s mega/lou oaristê/s~. The word implies quite as much familiar conversation as well as general intimacy with Zeus. The obscure ~enne/ôros~ need not be considered here. In any case it is to be taken closely with ~basi/leue~, next to which it stands, and not with ~Dio\s m. oaristê/s~ (as many even ancient writers have done.] [22\3: Intercourse of Minos with Zeus in the cave: [Pl.] _Min._ 319 E. (whence Str. 762), Ephorus ap. Str. 476; (from Eph. also Nic. Dam. ap. Stob. _Fl._ iv, 2, 25, p. 161 H.). V.M. i, 2, ext. 1. Here the position of the cave is as a rule not precisely stated. But the Idaian cave is generally meant and Max. Tyr. definitely refers to this one as the place where Minos met Zeus, 38, 2 (p. 221 R.).] [23\3: Birth of Zeus in the cave: ~Aigai/ô| en o/rei~ Hes., _Th._ 481 ff. Thence his mother bore him ~es Lu/kton~ 482 (cf. 477), which would be near Ida:--~es Di/ktên~ Schömann. And, at any rate, the cave on Mt. Dicte was the generally reputed place of Zeus' _birth_: [Apoll.] 1, 1, 6. D.S. 5, 70, 6; Mela 2, 113; D.H. 2, 61 (who also makes Minos visit Zeus there). At Praisos ~to\ tou= Diktai/ou Dio\s hiero/n~: Str. 475-8. Others, indeed, mention Ida as the place of the birth of Zeus: D.S. 5, 70, 2, 4; A.R. iii, 134. Both the holy caves are thus continually rivals; but it appears that the legend of the birth of Zeus was principally localized at the Diktaian cave, that of his intercourse with Minos chiefly at the Idaian; cf. now also M. Mayer, _Myth. Lex._ s. Kronos, ii, 1533 ff.]