Zeus even trying to offer them sacrifices with the crowd. Two ancient inscriptions discovered in 1909 near Lystra testify to the worship of these two gods in that city. One of the inscriptions refers to the "priests of Zeus", and the other mentions "Hermes Most Great"" and "Zeus the sun-god". The second occurrence is in Acts 28:11: the name of the ship in which the prisoner Paul set sail from the island of Malta bore the figurehead "Sons of Zeus" aka Castor and Pollux. The deuterocanonical book of 2 Maccabees 6:1, 2 talks of King Antiochus IV (Epiphanes), who in his
Leda (river) Leda (river) The Leda is a river in north-western Germany in the state of Lower Saxony. It is a right tributary of the Ems and originates at the confluence of the Sagter Ems and the Dreyschloot (a branch of the Soeste) near the town of Barßel. The Leda flows into the Ems near the town of Leer. On the southern bank of the Leda, in the "Overledingen Land" (Overledingen="country over the Leda"), opposite Leer, lies the small settlement of Kloster Muhde ("Muhde" from the Old Frisian "mutha" meaning "(river) mouth"). The total length of the river is ( including the