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Eusebius Pamphilii of Caesarea
On the Theophania
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  • THE SECOND BOOK AGAINST THE PHILOSOPHERS.
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90. It is also said, that on one occasion, lightning struck the statue of Jupiter167 in Olympia.



167. 6 This was, according to Strabo, (Lib. viii. p. mihi 244.) one of the finest works of Phidias. It was made of ivory, in a sitting posture, and so large, that if standing the Temple could not have contained it, its height would have been so great. See also Pausanias, Lib. i. cap. xviii. This Temple was once destroyed by an inundation of the sea. Pausan. Lib. in. cap. ix. I can find no account of the destruction of this statue by lightning. See Prep. Evang. p. 135. A.





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