is called [Greek:  pos dei noein eisienai kai exienai psuchen apo somatos].  The ending in Phlegon[103] proves that the story was given in the form of a letter, and we learn that the scene was laid at Amphipolis, on the Strymon, and that the account was sent by Hipparchus in a letter to Arrhidaeus, half-brother of Alexander the Great, the events occurring during the reign of Philip II. of Macedon.  Proclus says that his information is derived from letters, “some written by Hipparchus, others by Arrhidaeus.”

Philinnion was the daughter of Demostratus and Charito.  She had been married to Craterus, Alexander’s famous General, but had died six months after her marriage.  As we learn that she was desperately in love with Machates, a foreign friend from Pella who had come to see Demostratus, the misery of her position may possibly have caused her death.  But her love conquered death itself, and she returned to life again six months after she had died, and lived with Machates, visiting him for several nights.  “One day an old nurse went to the guest-chamber, and as the lamp was burning, she saw a woman sitting by Machates.  Scarcely able to contain herself at this extraordinary occurrence, she ran to the girl’s mother, calling:  ‘Charito!  Demostratus!’ and bade them get up and go with her to their daughter, for by the grace of the gods she had appeared alive, and was with the stranger in the guest-chamber.

“On hearing this extraordinary story, Charito was at first overcome by it and by the nurse’s excitement; but she soon recovered herself, and burst into tears at the mention of her daughter, telling the old woman she was out of her senses, and ordering her out of the room.  The nurse was indignant at this treatment, and boldly declared that she was not out of her senses, but that Charito was unwilling to see her daughter because she was afraid.  At last Charito consented to go to the door of the guest-chamber, but as it was now quite two hours since she had heard the news, she arrived too late, and found them both asleep.  The mother bent over the woman’s figure, and thought she recognized her daughter’s features and clothes.  Not feeling sure, as it was dark, she decided to keep quiet for the present, meaning to get up early and catch the woman.  If she failed, she would ask Machates for a full explanation, as he would never tell her a lie in a case so important.  So she left the room without saying anything.

“But early on the following morning, either because the gods so willed it or because she was moved by some divine impulse, the woman went away without being observed.  When she came to him, Charito was angry with the young man in consequence, and clung to his knees, and conjured him to speak the truth and hide nothing from her.  At first he was greatly distressed, and could hardly be brought to admit that the girl’s name was Philinnion.  Then he described her first coming and the violence of her passion, and told how she had said that she was there