Philemon

Well, then, does Philemon the comic poet also cut down idolatry, by these words:

And the Cocalus, written by Araros the son of Aristophanes, Philemon the comic poet, altering it, brought on the stage as comedy in the Hypobolimaeus.

" And — when Plato had said, "We might perhaps say, not absurdly, that the beginning of love is sight, that hope lessens the passion, that memory nourishes it, and that habit preserves it," Philemon the comic poet writes, "All first see, then marvel, then gaze further, then fall into hope;

He took charge of the prosecution in court, and after he had taken the sacred offerings in his hand and sworn that he had not taken a bribe and would not, and though he swore by the usual gods of oaths and called down destruction on his own head, yet it has been proved that he received twenty minas from Leuconides, the brother-in-law of Philotades, at the hands of Philemon the actor, which money h …

We, Lysimachus of Alopece, Demeas of Sunium, Chares of Thoricus, Philemon of Sphetta, Moschus of Paeania, know that at the date when the indictment was presented to the Council charging Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, with the murder of Nicodemus, Meidias, who is now being tried at the suit of Demosthenes, for whom we appear, came before the Council and stated that Aristarchus, and no one else, w …