(), an aged Phrygian and husband of Baucis. Once
Zeus and Hermes, assuming the appearance of ordinary mortals, visited Phrygia, and no one was
willing to receive the strangers, until the hospitable hut of Philemon and Baucis was opened
to them, where the two gods were kindly treated. Zeus rewarded the good old couple by taking
them with him to an eminence, while all the neighbouring district was visited with a sudden
inundation. On that eminence Zeus appointed them the guardians of his temple, and granted to
them to die both at the same moment, and then metamorphosed them into trees. (