Friday, September 27, 2024
The Son of a God?
Plutarch, Isis and Osiris 24 (Moralia 360 D; tr. Frank Cole Babbitt):
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Hence the elder Antigonus, when a certain Hermodotus in a poem proclaimed him to be "the Offspring of the Sun and a god," said, "the slave who attends to my chamber-pot is not conscious of any such thing!"Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders 29.7 (Moralia 182 C; tr. Frank Cole Babbitt):
ὅθεν Ἀντίγονος ὁ γέρων, Ἑρμοδότου τινὸς ἐν ποιήμασιν αὐτὸν Ἡλίου παῖδα καὶ θεὸν ἀναγορεύοντος, "οὐ τοιαῦτά μοι," εἶπεν, "ὁ λασανοφόρος σύνοιδεν."
When Hermodotus in his poems wrote of him as "The Offspring of the Sun," he said, "The slave who attends to my chamber-pot is not conscious of that!"See Kenneth Scott, "Humor at the Expense of the Ruler Cult," Classical Philology 27.4 (October, 1932) 317-328 (at 321).
Ἑρμοδότου δὲ αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ποιήμασιν Ἡλίου παῖδα γράψαντος, "οὐ ταῦτά μοι," ἔφη, "σύνοιδεν ὁ λασανοφόρος."
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