Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"Plutarch
Philosophy
Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"
Plutarch
Classical literature; Essays; Ethics; Philosophy
_Solution._ Many have been the removes of the Aenianes. First
they inhabited the plain of Dotion; thence they were expelled by the
Lapithae to the Aethices; from thence they betook themselves to a
region of Molossia about the Aous, where they were called Paravaeans;
afterward they took possession of Cirrha; they had no sooner landed
at Cirrha (Apollo so commanding their king Oenoclus) but they went
down to the country bordering on the river Inachus, inhabited by the
Inachians and Achaeans. There was an oracle given to the latter, that
they would lose all their country if they should part with any of
it,—and to the Aenianes, that they would hold it if they should take it
of such as freely resigned it. Temo, a noted man among the Aenianes,
putting on rags and a scrip, like a beggar, addressed himself to the
Inachians; the king, in a way of reproach and scorn, gave him a clod
of earth. He receives it and puts it up into his scrip, and absconds
himself, making much of his dole; for he presently forsakes the
country, begging no more. The old men wondering at this, the oracle
came fresh to their remembrance; and going to the king, they told him
that he ought not to slight this man, nor suffer him to escape. Temo
well perceiving their designs, hastens his flight, and as he fled,
vowed a hecatomb to Apollo. Upon this occasion the kings fought hand
to hand; and when Phemius, the king of the Aenianes, saw Hyperochus,
the king of the Inachians, charging him with a dog at his heels, he
said he dealt not fairly to bring a second with him to fight him;
whereupon Hyperochus going to drive away the dog, and turning himself
about in order to throw a stone at the dog, Phemius slays him. Thus the
Aenianes possessed themselves of that region, expelling the Inachians
and Achaeans; but they reverence that stone as sacred, and sacrifice
to it, wrapping it in the fat of the victim. And when they offer a
hecatomb to Apollo, they sacrifice an ox to Jupiter, a choice part of
which they distribute to Temo’s posterity, and call it the beggars’
flesh.
_Question 14._ Who were the Coliads among the Ithacans? And what
was a φάγιλος?
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