also the heavens from whence it descends, and the earth on which it falls, are made by him, who restrains and gives it at pleasure. Pausanias makes mention of an image of Jupiter Pluvius, and of altars erected to him in various places; Attica, sive l.
1. p. 60. Corinthiaca, sive l. 2. p. 119. Boeotica, sive l. 9. p. 602. and in India, as Apollonius Tyanaeus relates, in Vit. Philostrat. l. 3. c. 2. in fine, was a tub, which in time of drought they opened; from whence, as they pretended, clouds came forth and watered all the country.
Near Rome was a stone called Lapis Manalis, which being brought into the city, was said to cause rain. A like fable is told of water being in the forehead of Jupiter Lycaeus, which being shook by an oaken branch in the hand of a priest, gathered clouds, and produced plentiful showers of rain when wanted; but these, with others, are all fables and lies.
See Alex. ab Alex Genial. Dier. l. 4. c. 16.