Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 166

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[166] συνόλως γὰρ οὐκ ἀγνοητέον
ὅτι οἷα ἑταιρὶς καὶ μαχλὰς οὖσα ἡδονὴ γλίχεται τυχεῖν ἐραστοῦ καὶ μαστροποὺς ἀναζητεῖ, δι’ ὧν τοῦτον ἀγκιστρεύσεται· μαστροπεύουσι δ’ αὐτῇ καὶ προξενοῦσι τὸν ἐρῶντα αἰσθήσεις, ἃς δελεάσασα ῥᾳδίως ὑπηγάγετο τὸν νοῦν, ᾧ τὰ φανέντα ἐκτὸς εἴσω κομίζουσαι διαγγέλλουσι καὶ ἐπιδείκνυνται, τοὺς τύπους ἑκάστων ἐνσφραγιζόμεναι
καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον ἐνεργαζόμεναι πάθος· κηρῷ γὰρ ἐοικὼς δέχεται τὰς διὰ τῶν αἰσθήσεων φαντασίας, αἷς τὰ σώματα καταλαμβάνει δι’ αὑτοῦ μὴ δυνάμενος, καθάπερ εἶπον ἤδη.

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.) — 166 focus

[166] For we must altogether not be ignorant that pleasure, being like a courtesan or mistress, is eager to meet with a lover, and seeks for panders in order by their means to catch a lover. And the sensations are her panders, and conciliate love to her, and she employing them as baits, easily brings the mind into subjection to her. And the sensations conveying within the mind the things which have been seen externally, explain and display the forms of each of them, setting their seal upon a similar affection. For the mind is like wax, and receives the impressions of appearances through the sensations, by means of which it makes itself master of the body, which of itself it would not be able to do, as I have already said.

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 166

ed. Leopold Cohn

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