Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 73

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[73] τῶν ὄντων τὰ μὲν οὔτ’ ἀρετῆς οὔτε κακίας μετέχει, ὥσπερ
φυτὰ καὶ ζῷα ἄλογα, τὰ μὲν ὅτι ἄψυχά τέ ἐστι καὶ ἀφαντάστῳ φύσει διοικεῖται, τὰ δ’ ὅτι νοῦν καὶ λόγον ἐκτέτμηται· κακίας δὲ καὶ ¹² ἀρετῆς ὡς ἂν οἶκος νοῦς καὶ λόγος, ᾧ πεφύκασιν ἐνδιαιτᾶσθαι· τὰ δ’ αὖ μόνης κεκοινώνηκεν ἀρετῆς ἀμέτοχα πάσης ὄντα κακίας, ὥσπερ οἱ ἀστέρες· οὗτοι γὰρ ζῷά τε εἶναι λέγονται καὶ ζῷα νοερά, μᾶλλον δὲ νοῦς αὐτὸς ἕκαστος, ὅλος δι’ ὅλων σπουδαῖος καὶ παντὸς ἀνεπίδεκτος
κακοῦ· τὰ δὲ τῆς μικτῆς ἐστι φύσεως, ὥσπερ ἄνθρωπος, ὃς ἐπιδέχεται τἀναντία, φρόνησιν καὶ ἀφροσύνην, σωφροσύνην καὶ ἀκολασίαν, ἀνδρείαν καὶ δειλίαν, δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἀδικίαν, καὶ συνελόντι φράσαι ἀγαθὰ καὶ κακά, καλὰ καὶ αἰσχρά, ἀρετὴν καὶ κακίαν.

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.) — 73 focus

[73] Of existing things, there are some which partake neither of virtue nor of vice; as for instance, plants and irrational animals; the one, because they are destitute of soul, and are regulated by a nature void of sense; and the other, because they are not endowed with mind or reason. But mind and reason may be looked upon as the abode of virtue and vice; as it is in them that they seem to dwell. Some things again partake of virtue alone, being without any participation in any kind of vice; as for instance, the stars, for they are said to be animals, and animals endowed with intelligence; or I might rather say, the mind of each of them is wholly and entirely virtuous, and unsusceptible of every kind of evil. Some things again are of a mixed nature, like man, who is capable of opposite qualities, of wisdom and folly, of temperance and dissoluteness, of courage and cowardice, of justice and injustice, in short of good and evil, of what is honourable and what is disgraceful, of virtue and vice.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 εἶδε ταῦτα M 1.2 αἰσθητῶν] αἷσἡτῶν V
2 εἰδέας V
3 κάλη V, κάλλει G κορυβαριῶντες Β
4 ἑτέρου δὲ M
5 παραπεμφθείη M
6 γλειχομένου V, γλιχόμενον M δ’ V: δέ ceteri τοῦτον ἰδεῖν M ἀθρόου V: ἀθρόου μήπως M, θείου ceteri
7 ante τρόπον add. αἰ M ante ὡς add. κατακλύσωσιν, ἐπιδίδωσιν αὐτῶ τὸ φῶς ὁ θεὸς M 7.
8 σκοτοδεινιᾶν V, σκοτοδινιῶντι M
8 ἐπειδὴ M δὲ MR ἀρχετύπω παραδείγματι ἐμφερής Η
9 δὲ R ἐπειπὼν coni. Wendl. τῷ κατ’ εἰκόνα οm. G
10 ἐκμαγίου V ἔχοντες P
11 ἀπορήσῃ M τὴν om. F
12 τἄλλ’ ABP ἐνέθηκεν V
13 τὸν ὅλων Η, τῶν ὅλων om. ABP ταυτ’ εἰ γ’ ταυτὶ λέγοντα] ἀντιλέγοντα Β
15 μὲν om. G
16 καὶ τὴν γῆν om. V τὴν om. M (bis) θάλασσαν Η
17 οὕτως V: οὕτω ceteri ἐπίκαιρον M
18 ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ Markland (Mang.): ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῦ codd.
21 οὗτ’ VM: οὔτε ceteri
22 τέ om. Η
23 διώκηται M καὶ νοῦν ABP νοῦ καὶ λόγου M ἐκτέτμηται] οὐ κέκτηται ABP

2. 8—10 ἐπεὶ—ἔχοντος R fol.

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