Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 28

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[28] αὗται παρ’ ἑκάτερα στᾶσαι μέσην αὐτὴν ἐδορυφόρουν· ἡ δὲ σχῆμα τὸ σύνηθες ἑαυτῇ λαβοῦσα λόγων ἤρξατο τοιῶνδε· „τὴν τερατουργὸν καὶ μάχλον καὶ μυθολόγον
εἶδον ἡδονὴν τραγικώτερον ἐνεσκευασμένην καὶ λιπαρῶς θαμινά σοι προσομιλοῦσαν, ὥστε — εἰμὶ γὰρ μισοπόνηρος φύσει —, δείσασα μὴ λάθῃς ἀπατηθεὶς καὶ συναινέσας κακοῖς μεγίστοις ὡς ὑπερβάλλουσιν ἀγαθοῖς, ἠξίωσα τὰ προσόντα τῇ γυναικὶ μετὰ πάσης ἀληθείας προειπεῖν, ἵνα μηδὲν ἀγνοίᾳ τῶν συμφερόντων ἀπωσάμενος ἀβούλητον ἐμπορεύσῃ
κακοπραγίαν.

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.) — 28 focus

[28] And these all standing on each side of her, were her body-guards, while she was in the middle of them. 4 And she, having assumed an appearance familiar to her, began to speak as follows: "I have seen pleasure, that worker of wondrous tricks, that conjuror and teller of fables, dressed in a somewhat tragic style, and constantly approaching you in a delicate manner; so that (for I myself do by nature detest everything that is evil) I feared lest, without being aware of it, you might be deceived, and might consent to the very greatest of evils as if they were exceeding good; and therefore I have thought fit to declare to you with all sincerity what really belongs to that woman, in order that you might not reject anything advantageous to you out of ignorance, and so proceed unintentionally on the road of transgression and unhappiness.

Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 28

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