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260 PHILA. PHILAENI.
for the assistance furnished by the latter to Anti- Suidas (s. v. "ApaTos) has confounded her with
pater in the Lamian war (Diod. xviii. 18). But if No. 2.
any dependence can be placed on the authority of 5. A celebrated Athenian courtezan, and the misAntonius Diogenes (ap. Phot. p. 111, b.), she must tress of the orator Hyperides. (Athen. xiii. p. 590,
have been previously married to Balacrus (probably d. 593, f.; Dem. c. Neaer. p. 1351.) [E. H. B.]
the satrap of Cappadocia of that name) as early as PHILADELPHUS (,iaRc.eAXos), a surname
B. C. 332; and this seems to accord well with the of Ptolemaeus II. king of Egypt [PTOLEMAEUS
statement of Plutarch that she was already past her II.], and of Attalus II. king of Pergamum LATprime, when after the death of Craterus, who sur- TALUS II.].
vived his marriage with her scarcely a year, she Philadelphus is also the name of one of the
was again married to the young Demetrius, the son Deipnosophistae in Athenaeus, who calls him a
of Antigonus (Plut. Demetr. 14). The exact period native of Ptolemais, and describes him (i. p. 1) as
of this last marriage is nowhere indicated, but it a distinguished man in philosophical speculation
seems probable that it must have taken place as and of an uprioht life.
early as B.C. 319 (comp. Droysen, Hellenism. vol. PHILADELPHUS, ANNIUS. [CIMBER,
i. p. 216; and Niebuhr, Kl. Schrift. p. 226); it ANNIUS.]
was certainly prior to 315, in which year the re- PHILAENI (iAtawvoL), two brothers, citizens
mains of her'late husband were at length consigned of Carthage, of whom the following story is told.
to her care by Ariston, the friend of Eumenes (Diod. A dispute between the Carthaginians and Cyrexix. 59). Notwithstanding the disparity of age, naeans, about their boundaries, had led to a war,
Phila appears to have exercised the greatest in- which lasted for a long time and with varying sucfluence over her youthful husband, by whom she cess. Seeing no probability of a speedy conclusion
was uniformly treated with the utmost respect and to it, they at length agreed that deputies should
consideration, and towards whom she continued to start at a fixed time from each of the cities,-or
entertain the warmest affection, in spite of his rather perhaps from Leptis Magna and Hesperides
numerous amours and subsequent marriages. Dur- or Berenice, the most advanced colonies of Carthage
ing the many vicissitudes of fortune which Deme- and Cyrene, respectively, on the Great Syrtis,trius experienced, Phila seems to have resided and that the place of their meeting, wherever it
principally in Cyprus; from whence we find might be, should thenceforth form the limit of the
her sending letters and costly presents to her I two territories. The Philaeni were appointed for
husband during the siege of Rhodes. After the this service, on the part of the Carthaginians, and
fatal battle of Ipsus, she joined Demetrius, and was advanced much further than the Cyrenaean party.
soon after sent by him to her brother Cassander in Valerius Maximus accosunts for this by informing
Macedonia, to endeavour to effect a reconciliation us that they fraudulently set forth before the time
and treaty between him and Demetrius. She ap- agreed upon, a somewhat singular preface to his
pears to have again returned to Cyprus, where, in admiring declamation on their virtuous patriotism.
B. C. 295, she was besieged in Salamis by Ptolemy, Sallust merely tells us that they were accused of
and ultimately compelled to surrender, but was the trick in question by the Cyrenaean deputies,
treated by him in the most honourable manner, who were afraid to return home after having so
and sent together with her children in safety to mismanaged the affair, and who, after much alterMacedonia. Here she now shared the exalted cation, consented to accept the spot which they had
fortunes of her husband, and contributed not a little reached as the boundary-line, if the Philaeni would
to secure the attachment of the Macedonian people submit to be buried alive there in the sand. Should
to his person. But when, il B. C. 287, a sudden they decline the offer, they were willing, they said,
revolution once more precipitated Demetrius from on their side, if permitted to advance as far as they
the throne, Phila, unable to bear this unexpected pleased, to purchase for Cyrene an extension of
reverse, and despairing of the future, put an end to territory by a similar death. The Philaeni accordher own life at Cassandreia. (Plut. Demzetr. 22, 32, ingly then and there devoted themselves for their
35, 37, 38, 45; Diod. xx. 93.) country, in the way proposed. The Carthaginians
The noble character of Phila is a bright spot in paid high honours to their memory, and erected
the history of a dark and troubled period. Iler in- altars to them where they had died; and from
fluence was ever exerted in the cause of peace, in these, even long after all traces of them had vaprotecting the oppressed, and in attempting, but nished, the place still continued to be called " The
too often in vain, to calm the violent passions of Altars of the Pllilaeni " (Sall. Jug. 75; Val. Max.
those by whom she was surrounded. She left two v. 6, ext. 4; Pomp. Mel. i. 7; Oros. i. 2; Solin.
children by Demetrius; Antigonus, surnamed Go- Polyhist. 27; Sil. Ital. Bell. Pun. xv. 704; Polyb.
natas, who became king of Macedonia; and a iii. 39, x. 40; Strab. iii. p. 171, xvii. p. 836;
daughter, Stratonice, married first to Seleucus, and Plin. HI. N. v. 4; Thrige, Res Cyrenensium, ~~ 49
afterwards to his son Antiochus (Plut. Demetr. 31, -51). Without intending to throw discredit upon
37, 53). Besides these, it appears that she must the whole of the above story, we may remark that
have had a son by Craterus, who bore his father's our main authority for it is Sallust, and that he
name. (Niebuhr, K1. SchritR. p. 225.) The probably derived his information from African
Athenians, in order to pay their court to De- traditions during the time that he was proconsul of
metrius, consecrated a temple to Phila, under the Numidia, and at least three hundred years after
name of Aphrodite. (Athen. vi. p. 254, a.) the event. We cannot, therefore, accept it unre3. A daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes by his servedly. The Greek name by which the heroic
mistress Lamia. (Athen. xiii. p. 577, c.) brothers have become known to us,-4-AaLVoL, or
4. Wife of Antigonus Gonatas; probably a lovers of praise,-seems clearly to have been
daughter of Seleucus. I., by Stratonice (Joann. framed to suit the tale. The exact date of the
Malelas, p. 198, ed. Bonn; Droysen, Hellenism. occurrence we have no means of fixing. Thrige
vol. ii. p. 179; Froelich. Ann. Syr. pp. 21, 22). supposes it to have taken place not earlier than