Pylaemenes
- a mythical king of the Paphlagonians, an ally of Priam, Liv. 1, 1; Nep. Dat. 2, 2; Dict. Cret. 3, 5.—Hence,
- II Pylaemĕnĭus, a, um, adj.: gens, i.e. Paphlagonian, Plin. 6, 2, 2, § 5.
(Πυλαιμένης), a king of the Paphlagonians and an ally of Priam in the Trojan war. (Hom. Il. 2.851; Strab. xii. pp. 541, 543.) [L.S]
(Πυλαιμένης), appears to have been the name of many kings of Paphlagonia, so as to have become a kind of hereditary appellation, like that of Ptolemy in Egypt, and Arsaces in Parthia. The only ones concerning whom we have any definite information are the following: --
1. A king of Paphlagonia, who in B. C. 131 assisted the Romans in the war against Aristonicus, the pretender to the throne of Pergamus. (Eutrop. 4.20). At his death the race of the ancient kings of Paphlagonia appears to have become extinct, and it was asserted that he had by his testament bequeathed his kingdom to Mithridates V., king of Pontus. (Just. 38.5.)
2. A son of Nicomedes II., king of Bithynia, who was placed by his father on the throne of Paphlagonia, and made to assume the name of Pylaemenes, in order that he might appear to belong to the rightful line of the kings of that country. (Just. 37.4.) He was afterwards expelled by Mithridates the Great, in B. C. 90 (Eutrop. 5.5), and it does not appear that he himself ever recovered his throne: but after the final overthrow of Mithridates, the sons of Pylaemenes were reinstated by Pompey in the possession of some part of their father's dominions with the title of king. (Strab. xii. p.541.)
There are extant coins bearing the titles ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΥΛΑΙΜΕΝΟΥ ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ, which may probably be ascribed to one of the two preceding kings, but it is impossible to say to which they belong. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 394.)
[E.H.B]
- leader of the Paphlagonians: Apollod. E.3.34
- Apollod. E.7.25