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Headword:
Philêmôn
Adler number: phi,328
Translated headword: Philemon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The vocative [is] '
w)= *filh=mon'[1].
"This man, though he lived to be 101 years old,[2] suffered no bodily disability; moreover by some miracle of fortune he kept all his senses intact. And of course this is agreed to as well: when the Athenians were at war with Antigonos,[3] Philemon, who was living in Piraieus, had a dream in which 9 girls came out of his house, and he dreamt that he asked them for what purpose they were leaving him; and he thought he heard them saying that they were going outdoors, since it was not right for them to hear. At this point the dream came to an end, and he, when he woke up, explained to his slave what he had seen and what he had heard and what he had said. But then he wrote the rest of the play which he happened to be conducting during the present crisis. When he was done with that task he lay down in peace and then began to snore lightly. Those who were in the house thought that he was sleeping; but when this went on for a long time, they pulled his covers back and saw that he was dead. Therefore,
Epicurus, it was the nine Muses who visited Philemon, and when he was about to go on his fated and final journey, they departed. For it is not at all proper for gods to see people still when they are dead,[4] even if they are extremely beloved, nor to stain their vision with mortal expirations. But you, you fool, say that they do not pay attention to us." So says
Aelian in his
On Providence.[5]
Greek Original:Philêmôn. hê klêtikê ô Philêmon. houtos biôsas etê a# kai r# apêros ên to sôma: kai mentoi kai tas aisthêseis pasas asineis eumoiriai tini diesôsato. homologousi dêpou kai touto: polemountôn de Athênaiôn kai Antigonou, Peiraiei diaitômenos ho Philêmôn onar horai koras exiousas th# tês oikias autou: edokei de eresthai autas, ti boulomenoi kataleipousin, autôn de ôieto akousai legousôn exô thurôn ienai, mê gar einai themiton akousai autas: kai ton men oneiron entautha pausasthai: autos de diupnistheis tôi paidi periêgeitai ha te eide kai hosa êkouse kai hatina eipen. eita mentoi egrapse ta loipa tou dramatos, hoper oun etuche dia tês parousês agôn phrontidos. kai epilusamenos hêsuchêi ekeito: kaita huperenche. kai hoi ge endon ôionto katheudein auton. epei de makron touto ên, ekkalupsantes tethneôta etheasanto. oukoun, ô Epikoure, parêsan de kai Philêmoni ennea Mousai, kai hote emelle tên epinêstheisan hoi kai teleutaian hodon ienai, ôichonto apiousai: theois gar oudamêi themiton horan eti nekrous, kai ean ôsi panu philoi, oude omma chrainein thanasimoisin ekpnoais. su de legeis autous mê hêmin prosechein, ô môre. houtô phêsin Ailianos en tôi Peri pronoias.
Notes:
A second entry about Philemon the comic poet; see already
phi 327, and cf.
phi 329. This Suda entry = testimonium #6 in Kassel-Austin.
[1] i.e. Philemon with an omicron, rather than the omega found in the nominative case.
[2] Other traditions say 97 or 99.
[3] 260s BCE, during the Chremonidean War (of Greek rebellion against Antigonus Gonatas).
[4] cf.
Euripides,
Hippolytus 1437-8.
[5]
Aelian fr. 11 Domingo-Forasté (11 Hercher).
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; medicine; military affairs; mythology; philosophy; poetry; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 March 2001@23:46:24.
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