- διοπετής
- διοπετής , ές lit. ‘fallen from Zeus’ or ‘the sky’. Orig. of meteorites viewed as heaven-sent cult objects fallen from heaven (of images of deities Eur., Iph. T. 86–88; 977; 1384f Artemis; Dionys. Hal. 2, 66 Athena; Appian, Mithrid. 53 §213 Athena; Herodian 5, 3, 5 of a very large stone representative of the sun god Elagabalus; cp. Livy, Hist. 29, 11, 14, image of ‘Magna Mater’ brought from Pessinus to Rome in 204 B.C.) in our lit. only as neut. subst. τὸ διοπετές the image (of Artemis) fallen fr. heaven at Ephesus Ac 19:35 (B-D-F §241, 7).—EvDobschütz, Christusbilder: TU 18, 1899, 11ff; 41; on the cult of meteorites: ACook, Zeus III, ’40, xii, 881–942. CHemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting ’86, 227 n. 39.—DELG s.v. πέτομαι. M-M.
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