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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.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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