Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 60

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[60] γεγόνασι δὲ καὶ πρὸς μέτρα χρόνων· ἡλίου γὰρ καὶ σελήνης καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τεταγμέναις περιόδοις ἡμέραι καὶ μῆνες καὶ ἐνιαυτοὶ συνέστησαν. εὐθύς τε τὸ χρησιμώτατον, ἡ ἀριθμοῦ φύσις, ἐδείχθη, χρόνου παραφήναντος αὐτήν· ἐκ γὰρ μιᾶς ἡμέρας ¹ τὸ ἓν καὶ ἐκ δυοῖν τὰ δύο καὶ ἐκ τριῶν τὰ τρία καὶ ἐκ μηνὸς τὰ τριάκοντα καὶ ἐξ ἐνιαυτοῦ τὸ ἰσάριθμον ταῖς ἐκ δώδεκα μηνῶν ἡμέραις πλῆθος καὶ ἐξ ἀπείρου χρόνου ὁ ἄπειρος ἀριθμός.

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.) — 60 focus

[60] They were also created to serve as measures of time; for it is by the appointed periodical revolutions of the sun and moon and other stars, that days and months and years are determined. And moreover it is owing to them that the most useful of all things, the nature of number exists, time having displayed it; for from one day comes the limit, and from two the number two, and from three, three, and from the notion of a month is derived the number thirty, and from a year that number which is equal to the days of the twelve months, and from infinite time comes the notion of infinite number.

Notes on the current edition

De opificio mundi

1.
1 χρόνου καὶ κόσμου MAP, κόσμου καὶ χρόνου Β
2 σελήνης εἰς AP, σελήνην εἰς MB κέκληται] κεκλήρωται ABPF1
4 φέγγους] φωτὸς MABP ἰδίους V, ἰδίας ἐπιφανείας MABP
5 καὶ ποιότητας M, καὶ τἀς ποιότητας Β δὲ ABP ὅπερ] ὥσπερ M
6 ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν H 6.
7 μελλόντων προφαίνωσιν· ἢ γὰρ οm. Β
7 post προφαίνωσι add. καὶ μηνῶν καὶ ἐνιαυτῶν ἀριθμοὺς καὶ καὶ om. M) ζώων ἐμψύχων MAP ἣ ἐκλείψεσιν] καὶ ἐκλείψεσιν FGH
8 ἢ πάλιν ἐπιτολαῖς ἢ ἀποκρύψεσιν om. M ἢ ἀποκρύψεσιν scripsi: ἢ ἐπικρύψεσιν V, καὶ ἐπικρύψεσιν ceteri κεινήσεις V
10 τε om FGH νέφως εἰς V
11 πλημύρας V ἐρημίαν V
12 ὁρῶν V χειμάζοντος MABP
14 δὲ om. B καὶ ante κλόνον om. FG κεινήσεων V στοχασμῶν F
15 προεσήμειναν P ἀηθεστέρων V (Markland): ἀληθεστέρων ceteri
16 γεγόνασιν εἰς σημεῖα V: γεγόνασιν εἰς σημεῖον M, εἰς σημεῖα γεγόνασιν ceteri
17 αἰτησίους V
18 μήποτ᾿ V: μήποτε ceteri τίς] τίνος F
19 αἱ δ’] αἱ δὲ ABP, ἐν ὧ M τελεσφοροῦσαι κατορθοῦσι VM: τελεσφοροῦσι καὶ κατορθοῦσι ceteri καὶ om. VMABP
20 καὶ ante ζῴων om. Β τε om. F μέτρον F
21 ἄλλων ἀστέρων Mang. 2*

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