Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 105

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[105] 36 Ὁ μὲν οὖν Σόλων ἑβδομάσι δέκα ταῖς εἰρημέναις καταριθμεῖ
τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον. ὁ δ’ ἰατρὸς Ἱπποκράτης ἡλικίας ἑπτὰ εἶναί φησι, παιδίου, p. 26 M. παιδός, μειρακίου, νεανίσκου, ἀνδρός, πρεσβύτου, γέροντος, ταύτας δὲ μετρεῖσθαι μὲν ἑβδομάσιν, οὐ μὴν ταῖς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς. λέγει δ’ οὕτως· „Ἐν ἀνθρώπου φύσει ἑπτά εἰσιν ὧραι, ἃς ἡλικίας καλέουσι, παιδίον, παῖς, μειράκιον, νεανίσκος, ἀνήρ, πρεσβύτης, γέρων· καὶ παιδίον
μέν ἐστιν ἄχρις ἑπτὰ ἐτέων ὀδόντων ἐκβολῆς· παῖς δ’ ἄχρι γονῆς ἐκφύσιος, ἐς τὰ δὶς ἑπτά· μειράκιον δ’ ἄχρι γενείου λαχνώσιος, ἐς τὰ τρὶς ἑπτά· νεανίσκος δ’ ἄχρις αὐξήσιος ὅλου τοῦ σώματος, ἐς τὰ τετράκις ἑπτά· ἀνὴρ δ’ ἄχρις ἑνὸς δέοντος ἐτέων πεντήκοντα, ἐς τὰ ἑπτάκις ἑπτά· πρεσβύτης δ’ ἄχρι πεντήκοντα ἕξ, ἐς τὰ ἑπτάκις ὀκτώ· τὸ δ’ ἐντεῦθεν γέρων.“ λέγεται δὲ κἀκεῖνο πρὸς διασύστασιν ἑβδομάδος ὡς ¹² θαυμαστὴν ἐχούσης ἐν τῇ φύσει τάξιν, ἐπεὶ συνέστηκεν ἐκ τριῶν καὶ τεττάρων· τὸν μὲν τρίτον ἀπὸ μονάδος, εἰ διπλασιάζοι τις, εὑρήσει τετράγωνον, τὸν δὲ τέταρτον κύβον, τὸν δ’ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἕβδομον κύβον ὁμοῦ καὶ τετράγωνον·

De Opificio Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Opificio Mundi (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera que supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Creation of the World First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 105 focus

Solon therefore thus computes the life of man by the aforesaid ten periods of seven years. But Hippocrates the physician says that there are seven¹ ages of man, infancy, childhood, boyhood, youth, manhood, middle age, old age; and that these too, are measured by periods of seven, though not in the same order. And he speaks thus; In the nature of man there are seven seasons, which men call ages; infancy, childhood, boyhood, and the rest. He is an infant till he reaches his seventh year, the age of the shedding of his teeth. He is a child till he arrives at the age of puberty, which takes place in fourteen years. He is a boy till his beard begins to grow, and that time is the end of a third period of seven years. He is a youth till the completion of the growth of his whole body, which coincides with the fourth seven years. Then he is a man till he reaches his forty-ninth year, or seven times seven periods. He is a middle aged man till he is fifty-six, or eight times seven years old; and after that he is an old man.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 περὶ] κατὰ Cram. καταρτύνεται AB Ap.
2 οὐδ’] ἐν δ’ Cram. ἔσθ’ ὅμως H
3 νοῦ H καὶ] ἡ M μέγ’ ἄριστος M: μετ’ ἀρίσταις ceteri
4 ὀκτώ τ’ Mang.: ὀκτὼ δ’ codd. ἀμφοτέρων Mang.: ἀμφότερα codd,. ἀμφότερον α Cram. τεσσαρεσκαίδεκ᾿ F, τεσσαρεσκαίδεκ᾿ H, τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα AB
5 ἐννάτη Α μὴν M: μὲν ceteri μαλακωτέρα codd.
6 καὶ om. F
7 τὴν δεκάτην M: τῆ δεκάδ’ Η, τῆ δεκάτη ceteri δ’ om. H ἥκοιτο Β
8 ἄορος Β οἱ ἔχη Α, ἔχει FG Ap.
9 δέκα] δὶς F προειρημέναις M
11 πρεσβυτέρου M
12 ταῦτα M
13 δὲ D καλέουσιν D
14 νεανίσκος—γέρων MD: καὶ αἱ λοιπαί ceteri
15 ἄχρι DV ἐτῶν codd. δὲ D 15.
16 ἐκφύσεως codd.
16 ἐς] εἰς MDV ἐς τὰ] ἑπτὰ Η δὲ ABD λαχνώσεως codd. ἐς] εἰς AB
17 δ’ om. M ἄχρι DV αὐξήσεως MBGD ἐς] εἰς AB 17.
18 ἐς τὰ τετράκις ἑπτὰ ante νεανίσκος transp. M
18 δὲ D ἄχρι D ἐτέων] ἐτῶν Dv, τῶν DN, om. codd. ἐς] εἰς ΑΒ
19 δὲ D ἄχρι ἐτῶν M ἐς] εἰς ABFG δὲ D
20 κἀκεῖνο om. H πρὸς ἰδίαν σύστασιν Turn.

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10 Hippocr. περὶ ἑβδομάδων §
5 (VIII p. 636 Littré) 10—20 DN fol. 493r Dv p. 314 Φίλωνος: ὁ ἰατρὸς Ἱπποκράτης—γέρων.

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