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Jupiter is indeed called "omnipotens" at times, but so are Juno and Apollo, which shows that the term must be used in a relative sense. But very providence he never seems to be. He is powerless to grant Cybele's prayer that the ships may escape decay: Cui tanta deo permissa potestas? Rex Jupiter omnibus idem. Fata viam invenient.
Much about the same time came Bataces, one of Cybele's priests, from Pesinus, and reported how the goddess had declared to him out of her oracle, that the Romans should obtain the victory.
Yaquita was occupied with Cybele with the preparations for the departure, though the old negress could not be made to understand why they wanted to go or what they hoped to see. "But you will see things that you never saw before," Yaquita kept saying to her. "Will they be better than what I see now?" was Cybele's invariable reply.
Its subject is the self-mutilation of a noble youth out of zeal for Cybele's worship, and is probably a study from the Greek, though of what period it would be hard to say. A theme so unnatural would have found little favour with the Attic poets; the subject is more likely to have been approached by the Alexandrian writers, whom Catullus often copies.
Quaterquartus extended his arms and, with closed eyes, said, in deep tones: "This battle will ruin the enemy of Rome." True, he did not say whom he considered the enemy of Rome whether Diocletian or Carinus. At last the imperial procession reached Cybele's temple.
Cybele's image was brought out of heaven, into a field called Pessinunt, in Phrygia; so was that of Diana to Tauris, if you will believe Euripides; the oriflamme, or holy standard, was transmitted out of heaven to the noble and most Christian kings of France, to fight against the unbelievers.
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