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Headword:
Hôrapollôn
Adler number: omega,159
Translated headword: Horapollon, Horapollo
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Phaenebythis, a village in the Panopolite nome.[1] Grammarian. He taught in Alexandria and in Egypt, then in Constantinople under
Theodosius. He wrote
Names for Temples; a commentary on
Sophocles, on
Alcaeus, on
Homer. He was a person famed for his expertise, and won no less renown than the most highly reputed grammarians of old.
An Egyptian,[2] in the time of the emperor
Zeno. Nicomedes was searching for Harpocras,[3] and could not find him. Isidore the philosopher, when he learnt of this, sent a written message revealing the attackers. The messenger was captured, and acknowledged who it was that had sent him. They seized
Horapollo and Heraiscus,[4] strung them up by their hands, and asked after Harpocras and Isidore.
Horapollo did not have the character of a philosopher, but kept hidden the belief about God that he held. Heraiscus had predicted that
Horapollo would go over to the other side and abandon his ancestral customs; and this is what happened. Without any apparent compelling cause, he chose the change of his own accord, because of the hopes inspired by some insatiable desire -- for there is nothing else one could easily invoke to defend the defection.
Apparently, he became a Christian.[5]
Or perhaps the reverse.[6]
Hôrapollôn, Phainebutheôs, kômês tou Panopolitou nomou, grammatikos, didaxas en Alexandreiai kai en Aiguptôi, eita en Kônstantinoupolei epi Theodosiou. egrapse Temenika, hupomnêma Sophokleous, Alkaiou, eis Homêron. lampros men epi têi technêi anthrôpos kai tôn palai logimôtatôn grammatikôn ouden ti meion kleos apenenkamenos. Aiguptios, epi Zênônos basileôs. zêtôn de ho Nikomêdês ton Harpokran ên kai mê heuriskôn auton. ho de Isidôros ho philosophos touto mathôn pempei dia grammatôn dêlountôn tous epiontas. healô de ho grammatêphoros kai hômologei ton pempsanta: kai ton Hôrapollôna kai ton Hêraïskon hairousi kai neurois anakremasantes apo tês cheiros hekateron apêitoun ton Harpokran kai Isidôron. ho de Hôrapollôn ouk ên to êthos philosophos, alla ti kai en buthôi tês peri theou doxês hôn êidei apokruptomenos. ho gar Hêraïskos proeipen hôs automolêsei pros heterous, kai kataproêsetai tous patrious nomous ho Hôrapollôn: ho kai sunebê genesthai. ap' oudemias gar anankaias tuchês einai dokousês authaireton heileto tên metabolên, eti epi elpisin isôs aplêstou tinos epithumias. ou gar allo ti esti procheirisasthai rhaidiôs eis apologian tês metastaseôs. hôs eoike, Christianos egegonei. ê kai anapalin isôs.
Notes:
Probably C4/5 AD. See generally PLRE II Horapollon(2); FGrH 630.
[1] Of Egypt; cf.
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Phenebethis.
[2] The source now becomes
Damascius,
Life of Isidore frs. 314 and 317 Zintzen; cf.
alpha 4010.
[3] [
alpha 4010] Harpocras.
[4] [
eta 450] Heraiscus.
[5] For
Damascius, "abandoning ancestral customs" and "going over to the other side" are typical ways of referring to a departure from paganism and conversion to Christianity.
[6] Adler indicates this comment as a later addition.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 4 September 2003@14:12:21.
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