Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 63

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[63] παντοῖα οὖν ἰχθύων γένη καὶ κητῶν κελεύει συνίστασθαι κατὰ τόπους
διαφέροντα καὶ τοῖς μεγέθεσι καὶ ταῖς ποιότησιν· ἄλλα γὰρ ἐν ἄλλοις πελάγεσιν, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ ταὐτά· πλὴν οὐ πανταχοῦ πάντα διεπλάττετο, καὶ μήποτ’ εἰκότως· χαίρει γὰρ τὰ μέν τινα τεναγώδει καὶ οὐ πάνυ βαθείᾳ θαλάττῃ, τὰ δ’ ὑποδρόμοις καὶ λιμέσι μήτ’ ἐπὶ γῆν ἀνέρπειν μήτε ¹² πόρρω γῆς ἐπινήχεσθαι δυνάμενα, τὰ δὲ κατὰ μέσον καὶ βαθὺ πέλαγος διαιτώμενα τὰς προκεχυμένας ἄκρας ἢ νήσους ἢ πέτρας ἐκτρέπεται· καὶ τὰ μὲν εὐδίᾳ καὶ γαλήνῃ σφριγᾷ, τὰ δὲ κλύδωνι καὶ κυματώσει· ταῖς γὰρ συνεχέσι πληγαῖς γυμναζόμενα καὶ βίᾳ τὴν φορὰν ἀνωθοῦντα κραταιότερά
τέ ἐστι καὶ πιαίνεται μᾶλλον. εὐθὺς δὲ καὶ τὰ γένη τῶν πτηνῶν ἐδημιούργει ὡς ἀδελφὰ τῶν καθ’ ὕδατος — ἑκάτερα γὰρ νηκτά — μηδεμίαν ἰδέαν τῶν ἀεροπόρων ἀτελῆ καταλιπών.

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.) — 63 focus

[63] therefore He commanded all the races of fish and sea-monsters to stand together in their places, animals differing both in their sizes and in their qualities; for they vary in different seas, though in some cases they are the same, and every animal was not formed to live every where. And was not this reasonable? For some of them delight in marshy places, and in water which is very deep; and some in sewers and harbours, being neither able to crawl up upon the land, nor to swim off far from the land. Some, again, dwell in the middle and in the deep sea, and avoid all the projecting promontories and islands and rocks: some also exult in fine weather and in calms, and some in storms and heavy surf. For being exercised by continual buffetings, and being in the habit of withstanding the current by force, they are very vigorous and become stout.

After that he created the races of birds as akin to the races of aquatic animals (for they are each of them swimmers), leaving no species of creatures which traverse the air unfinished.

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De opificio mundi

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1 καὶ ante ἐκ δυοῖν om. Β
2 ἰσάριθμον] εἰς ἀριθμὸν M
4 ἀνατείνουσιν V
8 ἀκεινήτους V συμβαίνειν ABPH πάντη τε] πάντοτε F 8.
9 ἐπιτελεῖται ABP
11 γένει A
13 ἕτερον οὕτως ἑτέρου F, οὕτω στερρὸν ἑτέρω M, οὕτως om. ABP διαφέρειν Α
14 γὰρ] δὲ M τμητὸν] διαιρετὸν MABP
15 εἰς ante ἀκοὴν, γεῦσιν, ὄσφρησιν om. FGH εἰς ἁφήν] καὶ εἰς ἁφήν FGH, καὶ ἁφήν L
16 ὁ ποιῶν] ὁποίων M post ὁ ποιῶν add. περὶ αἰσθήσεων ζώων διαθέσεις MABP καὶ ante ἐξαιρ.] ὢν M
17 ᾧ] ὃ G ἡ seclusi δὲ V: δ’ ceteri
18 χιλοὺς ABPH δ’ ἡ γεῦσις ABP καὶ om. FGH ἀτμοὺς ὄσφρησις FGH δὲ om. F
10 ἢ] καὶ FGH
20 κητῶν] κτηνῶν M
21 διαφέροντας V, διαφερόντων FGH ποιότησι γ’
22 ἔστιν δέ V ταῦτα V, τὰ αὐτὰ MABP
23 μήποτε FGH τὰ μέν τινα V: τινα om. ceteri τεναγώδει V: τενάγει M, ἐν τεναγώδει ceteri
24 λιμέσιν V μήτε AP ἐπὶ γῆς F

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6 DR fol. 36r et DL fol. 40v: τοῦ αὐτοῦ (scil. Φίλωνος): οὑ πάντα τῷ θνητῷ γένει γνώριμα. —19 Orig. De princip. I 1,7 (t. XXI p.
38 Lomm.) unicuique corporeo sensui substantia quaedam sensibilis subiacet propria, in quam sensus ipse corporalis intenditur; verbi gratia visui subiacent colores habitus- magnitudo, auditui voces et sonus, odoratui nidores boni vel mali odores, gustui sapores, tactui calida vel frigida, dura vel mollia, aspera vel levia.
5 Ambros. Hexaem. V 14,
45 Pulchre autem post descriptionem piscium de iis avibus quae assuetae sunt aquis sermo successit . . . secunda quoque cognatio omnibus avibus et piscibus est eo quod volautis usus species sit natantis.

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