Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 119

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[119] πάλιν δ’ αὖ τὸ ἡγεμονικώτατον ἐν ζῴῳ κεφαλὴ τοῖς ἀναγκαιοτάτοις ἑπτὰ χρῆται, δυσὶν ὀφθαλμοῖς, ἀκοαῖς ἴσαις, αὐλοῖς μυκτῆρος δυσίν,
ἑβδόμῳ στόματι, δι’ οὗ γίνεται θνητῶν μέν, ὡς ἔφη Πλάτων, εἴσοδος, ¹² ἔξοδος δ’ ἀφθάρτων· ἐπεισέρχεται μὲν γὰρ αὐτῷ σιτία καὶ ποτά, φθαρτοῦ σώματος φθαρταὶ τροφαί, λόγοι δ’ ἐξίασιν ἀθανάτου ψυχῆς ἀθάνατοι

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 119 focus

[119] Again, the principal and dominant part in an animal is the head, and that has seven most necessary divisions: two eyes, an equal number of ears, two channels for the nostrils, and the mouth to make up seven, through which as Plato says, mortal things find their entrance, and immortal things their exit. For into the mouth do enter meat and drink, perishable food of a perishable body; but from out of it proceed words—the immortal laws of an immortal soul, by means of which rational life is regulated.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 ἀμητὸν ΜFH
3 καθ’ ἑκάστης ἡμέρας FG2H
4 ὅ τε μέγας ἡγεμὼν M: ὅ θ’ ἡγεμὼν ceteri
5 ἰσομοιρίας Β
6 ζυγῷ] χειμῶνι M
7 ἑκατέρω M ἴ
9 ὅσα G, ἴσα F2
10 ὅσα ἐστὶ σπαρτά M μετοπώρου P ὁ ABP: τὰ M, τὸ FGH
13 ὁ γὰρ τῆς M
15 μέρους M εἰς scripsi: πρὸς codd.
16 δὴ om. Β
17 ὑπὸ om. Β
18 κινεῖται] κινήσεις M ἕκαστον om. M
19 ἐπιχειρήσει M τε FGH ἐκτὸς καὶ ἐντὸς MFG: ἐντὸς καὶ ἐκτὸς ceteri
20 ἐν τῶ φανερῶ F ταῦτα MB 21.
22 τὰ δ’ ἐν τοῖς λεγομένοις σπλάγχνοις ABP
23 δ’ αὖ M, δὲ αὖ F2G: τὲ αὖ ceteri
24 αὐλαῖς H
25 ἔφην πλαστῶν M

2. 4—16 loann. Lyd. de mens. II c.
11 . . . ὅθεν τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν ψυχὴν διὰ (l. τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ λόγου ἑπταχῆ σχίζεται, πρός τε πέντε αἰσθήσεις καὶ τὸ φωνητικὸν ὄργανον καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τὸ γόνιμον.
25 Plat. Tim.
75 D

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