532 She is said to have thus restored the youth of her husband Jason, her father-in-law Aeson, the nurses of Dionysus, and all their husbands (Euripides, _Medea_, Argum.; Scholiast on Aristophanes, _Knights_, 1321; compare Plautus, _Pseudolus_, 879 _sqq._); and she applied the same process with success to an old ram (Apollodorus, _Bibl._ i. 9. 27; Pausanias, viii. 11. 2; Hyginus, _Fab._ 24). 533 Pindar, _Olymp._ i. 40 _sqq._, with the Scholiast; J. Tzetzes, _Schol. on Lycophron_, 152. 534 Jamblichus, _De mysteriis_, v. 12. 535 Lucian, _De morte Peregrini_, 27 _sq._ 536 Diogenes Laertius, viii. 2. 69 _sq._ 537 Lucian, _De morte Peregrini_, 25; Strabo, xv. 1. 64 and 68, pp. 715, 717; Arrian, _Anabasis_, vii. 3. _ 538 The Dying God_, pp. 42 _sqq._ M135 The Lydian kings seem to have claimed divinity on the ground of their descent from Hercules, the god of the double-axe and of the lion; and this Lydian Hercules or Sandon appears to have been the same with the Cilician Sandan. Lydian kings held responsible for the weather and the crops. 539 Herodotus, i. 7. 540 Joannes Lydus, _De magistratibus_, iii. 64. 541 See above, p. 144, note 2. 542 Plutarch, _Quaestiones Graecae_, 45. Zeus Labrandeus was worshipped at the village of Labraunda, situated in a pass over the mountains, near Mylasa in Caria. The temple was ancient. A road called the Sacred Way led downhill for ten miles to Mylasa, a city of white marble temples and colonnades which stood in a fertile plain at the foot of a precipitous mountain, where the marble was quarried. Processions bearing the holy emblems went to and fro along the Sacred Way from Mylasa to Labraunda. See Strabo, xiv. 2. 23, pp. 658 _sq._ The double-headed axe figures on the ruins and coins of Mylasa (Ch. Fellows, _An Account of Discoveries in Lycia_, London, 1841, p. 75; B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum_, Oxford, 1887, pp. 528 _sq._). A horseman carrying a double-headed axe is a type which occurs on the coins of many towns in Lydia and Phrygia. At Thyatira this axe-bearing hero was called Tyrimnus, and games were held in his honour. He was identified with Apollo and the sun. See B. V. Head, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lydia_ (London, 1901), p. cxxviii. On a coin of Mostene in Lydia the double-headed axe is represented between a bunch of grapes and ears of corn, as if it were an emblem of fertility (B. V. Head, _op. cit._ p. 162, pl. xvii. 11). 543 L. Preller, _Griechische Mythologie_, i.4 (Berlin, 1894) pp. 141 _sq._ As to the Hittite thunder-god and his axe see above, pp. 134 _sqq._ 544 Nicolaus Damascenus, in _Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, iii. 382 _sq._ _ 545 Ibid._ iii. 381. M136 The lion-god of Lydia. 546 Herodotus, i. 84.