Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 78

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[78] καθάπερ οὖν οἱ ἑστιάτορες οὐ πρότερον ἐπὶ δεῖπνον καλοῦσιν ἢ τὰ πρὸς εὐωχίαν πάντα εὐτρεπίσαι καὶ
οἱ τοὺς γυμνικοὺς ἀγῶνας καὶ σκηνικοὺς τιθέντες, πρὶν συναγαγεῖν τοὺς θεατὰς εἴς τε τὰ θέατρα καὶ τὰ στάδια, εὐτρεπίζουσιν ἀγωνιστῶν καὶ θεαμάτων καὶ ἀκουσμάτων πλῆθος, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ ὁ τῶν ὅλων ἡγεμὼν οἷά τις ἀθλοθέτης καὶ ἑστιάτωρ ἄνθρωπον καλεῖν μέλλων ἐπί τε εὐωχίαν καὶ θεωρίαν τὰ εἰς ἑκάτερον εἶδος προευτρεπίσατο, ἵν’ εἰς
τὸν κόσμον εἰσελθὼν εὐθὺς εὕρῃ καὶ συμπόσιον καὶ θέατρον ἱερώτατον, τὸ μὲν ἁπάντων πλῆρες ὅσα γῆ καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ θάλαττα καὶ ἀὴρ φέρουσιν εἰς χρῆσιν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν, τὸ δὲ παντοίων θεαμάτων, ἃ καταπληκτικωτάτας μὲν ἔχει τὰς οὐσίας, καταπληκτικωτάτας δὲ τὰς ποιότητας, θαυμασιωτάτας ¹² δὲ τὰς κινήσεις καὶ χορείας ἐν τάξεσιν ἡρμοσμέναις καὶ ἀριθμῶν ἀναλογίαις καὶ περιόδων συμφωνίαις· ἐν αἷς ἁπάσαις τὴν ἀρχέτυπον καὶ ἀληθῆ καὶ παραδειγματικὴν μουσικὴν οὐκ ἂν ἁμαρτάνοι τις εἶναι λέγων, ἀφ’ ἧς οἱ μετὰ ταῦτα ἄνθρωποι γραψάμενοι ἐν ταῖς ἑαυτῶν
ψυχαῖς τὰς εἰκόνας ἀναγκαιοτάτην καὶ ὠφελιμωτάτην τέχνην τῷ βίῳ παρέδοσαν.

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.) — 78 focus

[78] As then, those who make a feast do not invite their guests to the entertainment before they have provided everything for festivity, and as those who celebrate gymnastic or dramatic contests, before they assemble the spectators, provide themselves with an abundance of competitors and spectacles, and sweet sounds, with which to fill the theatres and the stadia; so in the same manner did the Ruler of all, as a man proposing games, or giving a banquet and being about to invite others to feast and to behold the spectacle, first provide everything for every kind of entertainment, in order that when man came into the world he might at once find a feast ready for him, and a most holy theatre; the one abounding with everything which the earth, or the rivers, or the sea, or air, brings forth for use and enjoyment, and the other being full of every description of light, which has either its essence or its qualities admirable, and its motions and revolutions worthy of notice, being arranged in perfect order, both as to the proportions of its numbers, and the harmony of its periods. And a man would not be far wrong who should say that in all these things there might be discovered that archetypal and real model music, the images of which the subsequent generations of mankind engraved in their own souls, and in this way handed down the art which is the most necessary and the most advantageous to human life.

Notes on the current edition

De opificio mundi

1.
1 αὐτοῦ codd.
2 ὁ om. P ἥτις] εἴ τις V
6 τὸ] τῶν B
7 ἐφ’ ἧς F ἔρωτα] ἐρωτᾶ M
10 καλοῦσιν om. M ἡ τὰ] εἶτα M πάντα om. Β ηὐτρέπισαν M, κατευτρεπίσαι Β
11 γυμνικοὺς ἀγῶνας καὶ σκηνικοὺς V: γυμνικοὺς καὶ σκηνικοὺς ἀγῶνας ceteri πρὶν ἢ M
12 τε om. M τὰ στάδια καὶ τὰ θέατρα Β εὐτρεπίζουσι V, διηυτρέπισαν M
13 ὁ om. (in ras.) G
15 προηυτρεπίσατο ABP, προσευτρεπίσατο M ἶνα M
16 εὐθὺς om. M εὕροι ABP 16.
17 τὸ μὲν om. M
17 πλήρη M θάλασσα V
18 χρῆσίν τε ΗP2 καταπληκτικωτάτας μὲν ἔχει τὰς οὐσίας om. M
19 δὲ καὶ τὰς π. M

2.
4 Nemes. de nat. hom. c.
1 p.
44 Matthaei . . . διὸ καὶ καλῶς ὁ Μωυσῆς τὴν δημιουργίαν ἐκτιθέμενος τελευταῖον ἔφησε τὸν ἄνθρωπον γεγενῆσθαι, . . . ὅτι πάντων δι’ αὐτὸν γενομένων ἀκόλουθον ἦν, πρῶτον τὰ πρὸς τὴν χρῆσιν αὐτοῦ παρασκευασθῆναι καὶ οὕτως αὐτὸν τὸν χρησόμενον παραχθῆναι.
9 sqq. Gregor. Nyss. de hom. opif. cop.
2 . . . . ὥσπερ τις ἀγαθὸς ἑστιάτωρ οὐ πρὸ τῆς παρασκευῆς τῶν ἐδωδίμων τὸν ἑστιώμενον εἰσοικίζεται, οικίζεται, ἀλλ’ εὐπρεπῆ τὰ πάντα παρασκευάσας καὶ φαιδρύνας τοῖς καθήκουσι κόσμοις τὸν οἶκον, τὴν κλισίαν, τὴν τράπεζαν, ἐφ’ ἑτοίμοις ἡδῆ τοῖς πρὸς τὴν τροφὴν ἐπιτηδείοις ἐφέστιον ποιεῖται τὸν δαιτυμόνα, κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὁ πλούσιός τε καὶ πολυτελὴς τῆς φύσεως ἡμῶν ἑστιάτωρ παντοίοις κάλλεσι κατακοσμήσας τὴν οἴκησιν καὶ τὴν μεγάλην ταύτην καὶ παντοδαπῆ πανδαισίαν ἑτοιμασάμενος οὕτως εἰσάγει τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἔργον αὐτῷ δοὺς οὐ τὴν κτῆσιν τῶν μὴ προσόντων, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀπόλαυσιν τῶν παρόντων.

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