Plut. Mor., Greek Questions 14 — Greek Questions

Plut. Mor., Greek Questions 14 — Greek Questions, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question 14. Who were the Coliads among the Ithacans? And what was a φάγιλος?Solution. After the slaughter of the suitors, some near related to the deceased made head against Ulysses. Neoptolemus, being introduced by both parties as an arbitrator, determined that Ulysses should remove and hasten out of Cephalenia, Zacynthus, and Ithaca, because of the blood that he had shed there; but that the friends and relations of the suitors should pay a yearly mulct to Ulysses, for the wrong done to his family. Ulysses therefore passed over into Italy; the mulct he devoted to his son, and commanded the Ithacans to pay it. The mulct was meal, wine, honey-combs, oil, salt, and for victims the better grown of the phagili. Aristotle saith phagilus was a lamb. And Telemachus, setting Eumaeus and his people at liberty, placed them among the citizens; and the family of the Coliads is descended from Eumaeus, and that of the Bucolians from Philoetius.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass

Telemachus — a life Ulysses — a candidate entry

Greek Questions, Plutarch — translated by Isaac Chauncy (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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