Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 159

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[159] ὅθεν οὐχ ἧττον ὄφεως ἐν τοῖς ὀδοῦσιν ἐπιφέρεται τὸν ἰόν· οὗτοι γάρ
εἰσιν ἀπληστίας ὑπηρέται καὶ ὑπουργοί, πάνθ’ ὅσα πρὸς ἐδωδὴν τέμνοντές τε καὶ λεαίνοντες καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον γλώττῃ παραδιδόντες τῇ χυλοὺς δικαζούσῃ πρὸς ἐπίκρισιν, ἔπειτα δὲ φάρυγγι· p. 39 Μ. σιτίων δὲ ἀμετρία θανατῶδες φύσει καὶ ἰοβόλον, ἅτε πέψιν οὐκ ἐνδεχομένων διὰ τὴν ¹ τῶν ἐπεισιόντων φοράν, ἣ γίνεται πρὶν ἐξικμασθῆναι τὰ πρότερα.

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.)

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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.) — 159 focus

[159] for his teeth are the ministers and servants of his insatiability, cutting up and smoothing everything which has a reference to eating, and committing them, in the first place to the tongue, which decides upon, and distinguishes between the various flavours, and, subsequently, to the larynx. But immoderate indulgence in eating is naturally a poisonous and deadly habit, inasmuch as what is so devoured is not capable of digestion, in consequence of the quantity of additional food which is heaped in on the top of it, and arrives before what was previously eaten is converted into juice.

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De opificio mundi

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1 καλοῦντα H, καλούντων L κατὰ] καὶ M
2 φησὶ M
3 ζῶον ἄπουν M: ἄπουν (om. ζῷον) ABP, ἄπους (om. ζῷον) FGH καὶ πρηνὲς M: καὶ om. ceteri πρηνὴς H πεπτωκὼς MFGH
4 δὲ ABP γῆς—ὅτι om. F κέχρηται ABP δὲ ABP
6 μόγις M
7 ἐπαίρει] ἐπιφέρει M
8 τῆς om. M τε] δ’ M
9 καὶ διὰ λόγων ABP
11 αἳ add. Creuzer ἐπιθυμίας συναύξουσι πρὸς γαστριμαργίαν· ἀναρρηγνύσαι (sic) καὶ ἀνδραποδίζουσαι τὰς γαστριμαργίας καὶ τοὺς ὑπογαστρίους οἴστρους M 11.
12 ἀναρριπίζουσαι Mang.: ἀναρριπτοῦσαι codd.
12 καὶ ἀνδραποδίζουσαι secl. Wendl. 12.
13 συναύξουσαι καὶ ἀναρρηγνύουσαι ABP
13 καὶ ante τοὺς om. ΑΒP1
14 ἐπιλιχνεύει M: περιλιχνεύουσι ceteri τῆς] τις (ι in ras.) Β κνίσης H
15 μεταλαμβάνει καὶ τῆς εἰδεχθείας· ὀρέγεται δὲ M τῆς εἰδεχθείας seclusi: ἤδη τῆς θέας Mang., ὢ τῆς coni. Wendl.
16 καταβαλὼν Μ: ἐπιβαλὼν ceteri αὐτὸν M
17 ἐγχεῖται M πάντα ἄνθρωπον σπεύδων M ἀθρόων Markland: ἀθρόον codd. 17.
18 οὐ κόρον ἀλλὰ M: οὐχ ὅρον ἄλλο ἡ FGH, οὐκ ἄλλο ἢ ABP
19 ἐν τοῖς M: αὐτοῖς ceteri
20 ἐδωδὴν MH: ἡδονὴν ceteri
21 πρῶτον γλώττῃ] γλώττη πρότερον M τῇ] τοὺς M
22 χιλοὺς BH διχάζουσι (sic) M δὲ alterum om. ABPG
23 θανατώδη φύσιν M ἐνδεχόμενον M

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