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Kairos/Caerus/Καιρός都是一只，宙斯最小的儿子，被称为机会之神，面貌是年轻且额前有一缕头发（象征机会一纵即逝），神力在于掌握恰当的时机，虽然都是时间神，但跟克洛诺斯是爷爷和孙子的关系， [s:134]
几个出处：
Aesop, Fables 536 (from Phaedrus 5. 8) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"Running swiftly, balancing on the razor's edge, bald but with a lock of hair on his forehead, he wears no clothes; if you grasp him from the front, you might be able to hold him, but once he has moved on not even Juppiter [Zeus] himself can pull him back: this is a symbol of Tempus [Kairos] (Opportunity), the brief moment in which things are possible." N.B. This fable is associated with famous statue of Kairos at Olympia by the Greek sculptor Lysippos of the C4th B.C.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 14. 9 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"Quite close to the entrance to the stadium [at Olympia] are two altars; one they call the altar of Hermes of the Games, the other the altar of Kairos (Opportunity). I know that a hymn to Kairos is one of the poems of Ion of Khios [poet C5th B.C.]; in the hymn Kairos is made out to be the youngest child of Zeus."
Callistratus, Descriptions 6 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C4th A.D.) :（太长，不摘了） |
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