Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 25

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[25] φυτὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἐν τοῖς λεχθεῖσι θησαυροῖς ἀειθαλῆ, βλαστάνοντα καὶ τίκτοντα καρποὺς
ἐπαλλήλους, ὡς τὴν τῶν ὡραίων καὶ νέων ἀκμὴν ἐπιτρέχειν καὶ καταλαμβάνειν τοὺς ἤδη πεπανθέντας· πόλεμος οὐδὲ εἷς ἐμφύλιος ἢ ξενικὸς τὰ φυτὰ ταῦτα πώποτε ἔτεμεν, ἀλλ’ ἀφ’ οὗ τὸ πρῶτον αὐτὰ γῆ παρέλαβεν, ὥσπερ ἀγαθὴ τροφὸς τιθηνεῖται, ῥίζας μὲν οἱονεὶ θεμελίους εἰς τὸ κάτω βαλλομένη κραταιοτάτας, τὸ δὲ ὑπὲρ γῆς ἔρνος οὐρανόμηκες ¹² ἀνατείνασα, κλάδους δὲ ἐκφύσασα τῶν ἐν ζῴοις χειρῶν καὶ ποδῶν ἀναλογοῦντα μιμήματα, πέταλα δὲ οἷον κόμας σκέπην ἐν ταὐτῷ καὶ κόσμον ἐπανθῆσαι παρασκευάσασα, καρποὺς δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοις, ὧν ἕνεκα κἀκεῖνα“.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 25 focus

[25] for in the treasuries which I have mentioned there are ever-flourishing plants, blossoming and producing an incessant series of fruits, so that the beauty of those in their prime and fresh appearing overtakes and overshadows those which are already fully ripe; and no war, either domestic or foreign, has ever cut down these plants, but from the very day that the earth first received them it has cherished them like a faithful nurse, sending down into its lowest depths the roots to act like the strongest branches, and above ground extending its trunk as high as heaven, and putting forth branches which are by analogy imitations of the hand and feet which we see in animals, and leaves which correspond to the hair. I have prepared and caused that to blossom which shall be at the same time a covering and an ornament to you; and besides all this, I have provided fruit for the sake of which the branches and leaves are originally produced."

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

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2 εἰσαεὶ] σοι MA1G1 προσειπεῖν P
3 κἄν prius om. MA1G1 συναινέσας MA1G1, αἴνης Pap ἀσμενίζῃ MA1, ἀσμενίζεις FH ἀποστραφῆς MA1G2
4 ἐστιν Pap ἐκκεχειρία MA2BHPF, εκεχηρεια Pap
5 χρημάτων A2G2BHPF
6 σιτία Pap MA1G1: σιτία τε ceteri ὀσμῶν] ἀρωμάτων MA1G1
7 παίδειά Pap, παιδεῖαί G1 παιδεῖαι legit Ambros.) ἡ ἀφρόντιστος Pap MA1G1: ἄφροντις ceteri
9 ἀπλήρωτος] ἀπαραίτητος MA1G1 θελήσης A-BF
10 εὐπορήσασα καὶ εὐτρεπίσασα F εὐτρεπίσασα Pap et codd.: ὧν εὐτρέπισα v ἀρμόποντα MA1
11 ἢ τί πιὼν HPUF ἢ τί τοῖς ὠσὶν Α2Β ὦσι et μυκτῆρσι Pap
12 ὀσφρόμενος Pap: ὀσφραινόμενος codd. δ’ A2G2BHPUF ἐπιθυμήσειε Α1
13 τὰ γεννώμενα Pap MA1G1: γεγενημένα (om. τὰ) ceteri
14 ἀειθαλεῖς Α1 καὶ τίκτοντα om. MA1G1
16 τοὺς om. G1 πόλεμος δὲ D, πόλεμος δ’ HP οὐδεὶς MA1G1 ἡ] καὶ Α1
17 ταῦτα τὰ φυτὰ H οὐπώποτε MA1 ἀπέτεμεν MA1G1, ἐπέτεμεν G2U, ἐξέτεμεν Α2Β τὸ om. Pap (?) Α1
18 ταῦτα τιθηνεῖται MA1G1 οἷον εἰς U
19 τὰ κάτω A2B βαλομένη Α2Β, βαλλομένης F τὸ] τὰ Pap A2G2BPUF δ’ A2G2BHPUF

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2 sqq. ibid. . . . spargit odores suos voluptas, . . . thesauros demonstrat, regna promittit, amores spondet continuos, inexploratos concubitus poUicetur, sine paedagogo disciplinas, sine monitore sermones, vitam sine sollicitudine, mollem somnum, inexplebilem cupiditatem.

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