Friday, September 27, 2024

 

The Son of a God?

Plutarch, Isis and Osiris 24 (Moralia 360 D; tr. Frank Cole Babbitt):
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!"

ὅθεν Ἀντίγονος ὁ γέρων, Ἑρμοδότου τινὸς ἐν ποιήμασιν αὐτὸν Ἡλίου παῖδα καὶ θεὸν ἀναγορεύοντος, "οὐ τοιαῦτά μοι," εἶπεν, "ὁ λασανοφόρος σύνοιδεν."
Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders 29.7 (Moralia 182 C; tr. Frank Cole Babbitt):
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!"

Ἑρμοδότου δὲ αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ποιήμασιν Ἡλίου παῖδα γράψαντος, "οὐ ταῦτά μοι," ἔφη, "σύνοιδεν ὁ λασανοφόρος."
See Kenneth Scott, "Humor at the Expense of the Ruler Cult," Classical Philology 27.4 (October, 1932) 317-328 (at 321).

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