Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 116

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[116] ὥστε καὶ ἀθληταὶ μὴ δυνάμενοι νικηφορεῖν, ἀεὶ δὲ ἡττώμενοι, καταλυέτωσαν· καὶ εἴ τις ἔμπορος ἢ ναύκληρος θαλαττεύων ἐπαλλήλοις κακοπραγίαις χρῆται, μετατραπόμενος ἠρεμείτω·
ὅσοι τε τὰς μέσας ἐπιτηδεύσαντες τέχνας μηδὲν ἠδυνήθησαν διὰ σκληρότητα φύσεως μάθημα παραδέξασθαι, ἐπαινετοὶ καταλύοντες· οὐ γὰρ ἕνεκα ἀσκήσεως ἀσκεῖται τὰ τοιαῦτα, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πρὸς ὃν ἀναφέρεται σκοποῦ.

De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 116 focus

[116] So too let those athletes who are not able to gain the victory but who are invariably defeated, condemn their trade; and if any merchant or captain of a ship in all his voyages meets with incessant disasters, let him turn away from the business and rest. And those men who, having devoted themselves to the intermediate arts, have nevertheless through the ruggedness of their nature been unable to acquire any learning, are to be praised for abandoning them: for such studies are not practised for the sake of the practise, but for the sake of the object towards which the labourer is borne.

Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 116

ed. Leopold Cohn

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