Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 127

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[127] διό μοι δοκοῦσιν οἱ τὰ ὀνόματα τοῖς πράγμασιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐπιφημίσαντες ἅτε σοφοὶ καλέσαι τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἑπτὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ περὶ αὐτὸν σεβασμοῦ καὶ τῆς προσούσης σεμνότητος· Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ καὶ προστιθέντες τὸ ἐλλειφθὲν ὑφ’
Ἑλλήνων στοιχεῖον τὸ Σ τρανοῦσιν ἔτι μᾶλλον τὴν ἔμφασιν, ἐτυμώτερον σέπτεμ προσαγορεύοντες ἀπὸ τοῦ σεμνοῦ, καθάπερ ἐλέχθη, καὶ σεβασμοῦ.

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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.) — 127 focus

[127] On which account it appears to me that they also originally gave letters their names, and acting as became wise men, did give the name to the number seven from the respect¹ they had for it, and from regard to the dignity inherent in it. But the Romans, adding the letter S, which had been omitted by the Greeks, show still more conspicuously the correct etymological meaning of the word, calling it septem, as derived from σεμνὸς, venerable, as has been said before, and from σεβασμὸς, veneration.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 κατὰ om. M τελειογονεῖσθαι M (Lydus): ζωογονεῖσθαι ceteri
2 ἑπταμηνιαῖα ΜDM 2.
3 ὀκτωμηναίων G, ὀκτωμήνων D
5 κατασκήψουσιν M διακρίνεται Β
7 post θάνατον add. ἀεί M αὐτοῖς F2
8 πεφοίτηκε M 8.
9 τε καὶ M: τε om. ceteri
9 μὲν γὰρ] τὲ M ἡ om. ABP1 9.
10 τῶν ἑπτὰ πλανήτων HP2
10 τι] τῆ M
11 ἡγεμονεῖς οὔσας M
13 ἑαυτῶν H (Lydus): αὐτῶν APG, αὐτῶν MBF
14 ἀποτελεῖ ABPFG
16 τὰς φύσεις] τὰ (om. φύσεις) M ἰδίας] ἀιδίου M
17 πράγμασιν M Mϋller): γράμμασιν
18 ἅτε σοφοὶ om. M αὐτοῦ Β
19 προστιθέντες] ἀγνοοῦντες προστίθενται M
20 καὶ τρανοῦσιν M ἐτυμώτερον M: ἑτυμοτέραν Η, ἑτοιμοτέραν ABPFG
21 σέπτεμ] σεπτὲ M, σεπτὲ ceteri προσονομάζοντες M σεβασμίου M

2. 1—3 DP fol. 106v et DM fol. 106v Φίλωνος (Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ Μωυσέα), DR p. 407 (Φίλωνος): τὰ κατὰ—δυναμένων.
1 loann. Lyd. de mens. II c.
11 . . . ἔνθεν καὶ τὰ ἑπτάμηνα βρέφη τελειογονεῖσθαι πέφυκεν, ὡς Ἱπποκράτης λέγει· ἡ γὰρ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ ψυχογονικὴ δύναμις τὰ ἑπτάμηνα τέλεια ἀποφαίνει. 11—16 loann. Lyd. l. l. . . στοιχείων δὲ τὰ φωνήεντα ἑπτά, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἐξ ἑαυτῶν ἔοικε φωνεῖσθαι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις συνταττόμενα φωνὰς ἐνάρθρους ἀποτελεῖν· τῶν γὰρ ἡμιφώνων ἀναπληροῖ τὸ ἐνδέον, ὁλοκλήρους δὲ κατασκευάζει τοὺς φθόγγους, τῶν δὲ ἀφώνων τρέπει τε καὶ μεταβάλλει τὰς φύσεις, ἵνα γένηται τὰ ἄρρητα ῥητά.

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 127

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