Παλαίφατος
Palaiphatos, Palaephatus
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Translation
[Sc. active] in Athens,1 epic poet; son of Aktaios and Boio,2 but other sources say, of Iokles and Metaneira; according to others [he was son] of Hermes. He lived after Phemonoe3 according to some, but according to others even before her. He wrote a Generation of the Universe in 5000 verses, Births of Apollo and Artemis in 3000 verses, Speeches and words of Aphrodite and Eros in 5000 verses, Contest of Athena and Poseidon in 1000 verses, [and] Leto's lock.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παλαίφατος, Ἀθήνησιν ἐποποιός, υἱὸς Ἀκταίου καὶ Βοιοῦς, οἱ δὲ Ἰοκλέους φασὶ καὶ Μετανείρας· οἱ δὲ Ἑρμοῦ. γέγονε δὲ κατὰ μέν τινας μετὰ Φημονόην, κατὰ δὲ ἄλλους καὶ πρὸ αὐτῆς. ἔγραψε δὲ Κοσμοποιΐαν εἰς ἔπη ʹ22εʹ, Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος γονάς, ἔπη ʹ22γʹ, Ἀφροδίτης καὶ Ἔρωτος λόγους καὶ φωνὰς ἔπη ʹ22εʹ, Ἀθηνᾶς ἔριν καὶ Ποσειδῶνος ἔπη ʹ22αʹ, Λητοῦς πλόκαμον.
Betacode
*palai/fatos, *)aqh/nhsin e)popoio/s, ui(o\s *)aktai/ou kai\ *boiou=s, oi( de\ *)iokle/ous fasi\ kai\ *metanei/ras: oi( de\ *(ermou=. ge/gone de\ kata\ me/n tinas meta\ *fhmono/hn, kata\ de\ a)/llous kai\ pro\ au)th=s. e)/graye de\ *kosmopoii/+an ei)s e)/ph #22e#, *)apo/llwnos kai\ *)arte/midos gona/s, e)/ph #22g#, *)afrodi/ths kai\ *)/erwtos lo/gous kai\ fwna\s e)/ph #22e#, *)aqhna=s e)/rin kai\ *poseidw=nos e)/ph #22a#, *lhtou=s plo/kamon.
Notes (3)
- The first of four authors whom the Suda lists under the name Palaephatus (and whom Jacoby kept together as FGrH 44, T1-4). One or more of the other three (pi 70, pi 71, pi 72) may refer to the same person; some confusion in the attribution of their works is admitted by the redactor. As for this one, whose origin is obscure and legendary, no further details are known; but cf. Christodorus' epigram describing his statue in the Gymnasion of Zeuxippus in Greek Anthology 2.1.36-7.
- 1The idiom is unusual for the Suda; Adler records (but does not adopt) the suggested emendations 'Athenian' and 'from Athens'. ↩
- 2Boio was a poetess of Delphi, also known as a prophetess. Pausanias 10.5.4 records four lines of one of her works. A poem on mythological stories featuring the transformation of persons into birds (Ornithogonia) is cited by Athenaeus (Deipnosophists 9.393E [9.49 Kaibel], following Philochorus FGrH 328 F214), though he indicates doubt as to whether its author was Boios (male) or Boio. ↩
- 3Like Boio, Phemonoe is known as a prophetess and poetess; the tradition records her as a daughter of Apollo, and (Pausanias 10.5.7) the first priestess at Delphi who 'first sang in hexameter verse'. ↩
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