The Dioscuri in the Christian Legends

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744.
44 THE DIOSCURI IN THE CHRISTIAN LEGENDS.
Now suppose we compare with these descriptions of the martyrs, dead and living, the account which Dionysius of Halicarnassus gives of the appearance of the Dioscuri at the battle of the Lake Regillus. (Dionys. VI. 13.) eV TavTTj Xe'yovrai t^ I^^XV nooro/it'o) re ra SiKTaropi koL toIs irepi airbv TCTayfxevots LTTTrels fiuo (f)avijvaiy KaXXet re kol fieyedet liOKpta KpcLTTOvs cov fj Ka8' rj/ias (j)viTis eK(j)€peL- ivapxop-evot yevcLav, rjyoipfvoi re
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And again when the Brethren appear in the Forum at the close of the day, we are told that eV TTJ Pa)/xatcoi/ dyopa Tov avrov rponov otpdrjvai dvo veavlo-Koi Xeyovrai, 7roKep.iica.s evBedvKores oroXa?, prjKtaTol re Koi KoKXio-TOt koX ttjv avrrjv rjKiKtav Here we have a secure series of parallels, of which the most interesting perhaps is Ambrose's mirae magnitudiuis, ut prisca aetas ferebat with Dionysius' fieyedei fxanpa Kpelrrovs cuv r/ Kad' f/pas (j>v(rK CK^e'pei.
We may also compare for the size of the saints the description of the theophany of the Dioscuri given by Plutarch', a(p6T]tTav aTTO (rrparov piKpov varepov avdpes Bvo KaXoi Kol p^yaXor tovtovs eiKOcrav elvai Atoo-xopouy, and the similar account in Valerius Maximus^ when, in the Macedonian war, P.


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