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tripod^'^^ was tantamount to Apollo seated on his omphalos. Again, we have seen that the cult of the Pelasgian oak-Zeus gave rise to the names Triopas and Triops.""^'^ It is, then, a fair conjecture that the Pythagoreans, who preserved so much Pelasgian lore, called the Delphic tripod triops^"'^ because it was originally the symbol of the Pelasgian oak- god. Well might bronze tripods be given as prizes at the games of Apollo TptoTTio?,"'^^ whose cult had been founded by the Thessalian Triopas. -^^
But Delphi was not the only place where Apollo was connected with the oak. A fine tetradrachm of Catana signed by the artist Choerion, shows a full-faced head of Apollo crowned with oak-leaves and flanked by bow and lyre.^^^ Golden crowns of oak-leaves were dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delos by Lysander and L. Cornelius Scipio.^^ Beside Zeus 'Acr/cpato?, oak-god of Caria and Lydia,~'^^ we find Apollo 'Acr/cpaio?, oak-god of Phrygia.~^° Homer describes Apollo as leaning against an oak outside the walls of Troy~^^ or perching in the form of an eagle on the oak of his father Zeus.^^^ At Miletus too Apollo was called Apvna<i or Apv/xalo'i, the god " of the oak-wood. "~^^ To one interesting cult-title we can unfortunately assign no locality. Two consecutive glosses in the lexicon of
°" -E.g., Baumeister, Denhndler, i., 102 fig. 108.
^'^ Folk-Lore, xv., 288 f.
^'^ Hesych. s.v. rpiotp.
27^ Hdt., I. 144.
='fi Diod., 5. 61.
'^ G. F. Hill, Coins of Ancient Sicily, p. 132 f., pi. 9, 4, from a specimen in the Hunterian collection at Glasgow.
278 Dittenberger Sylloge,- 588, 7 and 100.
"9 Folk-Lore, xv., 296.
280 Menander Laodic. -n-tpl tTndeiKTiKwv in Walz rhctoi-es GrcEci, ix., 329, 26. See Class. Rev., xvii., 416.
-" //., 21. 549.
2^2 //., 7. 58 ff.
2 Apifiag L,yc. Alex., 522, with Tzetz. ad loc, cp. Strab., 321 : Apvfiaiog schol. vet. ad hyc. Alex., 522, cp. Tzetz. id. Api]jiaioQ. VOL. XV. 2 E
