His statue they describe as seated, being naked above, but clothed below; wielding in his left hand a scepter, in his right an eagle [sc. with wings] spread out. And it is hinted that being seated [represents] the seat of power, and the upper nakedness [shows] that [he is] manifest in the spiritual and heavenly parts of the cosmos. But the rest is covered because the god is unknown in the lowly [parts]. Having the scepter in his left hand signifies power; the extended eagle in the other [hand] shows that he controls the airborne breezes, just as the eagle does the high[-flying] birds.[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "Zeus looked long into the parchments"; in reference to those who are being repaid for what they do, good or bad. [It arose] because they say nothing is coincidental, but Zeus records everything on certain parchments and, at some time, follows it up.[2]