[1162]. Pausanias, ii. 29. 7 sq.; Isocrates, Evagoras, 14; Apollodorus, iii. 12. 6. Aeacus was said to be the son of Zeus by Aegina, daughter of Asopus (Apollodorus, l.c.). Isocrates says that his relationship to the god marked Aeacus out as the man to procure rain.
[1163]. Theophrastus, De signis tempestatum, i. 20, compare 24.
[1164]. Theophrastus, op. cit. iii. 43.
[1165]. Pausanias, i. 32. 2.
[1166]. Theophrastus, op. cit. iii. 43 and 47. Compare Aristophanes, Clouds, 324 sq.; Photius, Lexicon, s.v. Πάρνης.
[1167]. Pausanias, i. 32. 2.
[1168]. Pausanias, ii. 25. 10. As to the climate and scenery of these barren mountains, see A. Philippson, Der Peloponnes (Berlin, 1891), pp. 43 sq., 65.
[1169]. Joannes Lydus, De mensibus, iv. 48.
[1170]. Paton and Hicks, The Inscriptions of Cos (Oxford, 1891), No. 382; Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum, 2nd Ed., No. 735. There were altars of Rainy Zeus also at Argos and Lebadea. See Pausanias, ii. 19. 8, ix. 39. 4.
[1171]. Ἐπικάρπιος μὲν ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν, Aristotle, De mundo, 7, p. 401 a, ed. Bekker; Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, xxx. 8.