Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 81

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[81] οὗτος μὲν οὖν τὰς ἐπιφερομένας πληγὰς ἑκατέρᾳ τῶν χειρῶν ἀποσείεται καὶ τὸν αὐχένα περιάγων ὧδε κἀκεῖσε τὸ μὴ τυφθῆναι φυλάσσεται, πολλάκις δὲ καὶ δακτύλοις ποδῶν ἄκροις ἐπιβεβηκὼς καὶ πρὸς ὕψος αὑτὸν ἐξάρας ἢ στείλας καὶ συναγαγὼν
ἔμπαλιν κατὰ κενοῦ φέρειν τὰς χεῖρας τὸν ἀντίπαλον ἠνάγκασε σκιαμαχίᾳ τι παραπλήσιον δρῶντα· ὁ δὲ οἰκέτης ἢ ὁ χαλκὸς μηδὲν ἀντιδρῶν ὑπέρριπται πάντα πεισόμενος, ὅσα ἂν ὁ διατιθεὶς ἐργάσασθαι διανοῆται.

De Cherubim. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Cherubim (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 81 focus

[81] And to be beaten, also happens to athletes who contend in boxing, or in the pancratium for victory and crowns. The boxer parries blows which are aimed at him with one of his hands, and stooping his neck on this side and on that side, guards against being struck; and very often he stands on tiptoe, and raises himself as high as he can, or else he stoops and contracts himself on the other hand, and compels his antagonist to waste his blows on the empty air, very nearly as if he were fighting with a shadow. But the servant or the brass, doing nothing in return, is subjected to the will of the other party, suffering at his hands whatever he pleases:

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 81

ed. Leopold Cohn

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