Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 29

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[29] τὴν μὲν οὖν σκευὴν ᾗ κέχρηται πᾶσαν ἀλλοτρίαν ἴσθι· τῶν γὰρ εἰς γνήσιον κάλλος οὐδὲν οἰκεῖον ἐξ ἑαυτῆς ἐπιφέρεται, περιῆπται δὲ δίκτυα καὶ πάγας ἐπὶ τῇ σῇ θήρᾳ, νόθην καὶ κίβδηλον εὐμορφίαν, ἃ προϊδόμενος, ἢν εὖ φρονήσῃς, ἀτελῆ τὴν ἄγραν αὐτῇ παρασκευάσεις· ὀφθαλμοὺς μὲν γὰρ φανεῖσα ἡδύνει, ὦτα δὲ φθεγξαμένη
λιγαίνει, ψυχὴν δὲ τὸ πλείστων ἄξιον κτῆμα καὶ διὰ τούτων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων μερῶν πέφυκε λυμαίνεσθαι. τῶν δὲ περὶ αὑτὴν ἃ μὲν ἔμελλεν ἀκούσαντί σοι II p.268 M. προσηνῆ γενήσεσθαι διεξῆλθε, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ὅσα μὴ ῥᾳστώνην εἶχεν ἀμύθητα ὄντα ἐθελοκακοῦσα ἐπεκρύψατο, οἷς οὐκ ¹² ἄν τινα συναινέσειν εὐχερῶς προσεδόκησεν.

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.) — 29 focus

[29] "Know, then, that the very dress in which she appear to you wholly belongs to some one else; for of ten things which contribute to genuine beauty, not one is ever brought forward as being derived from or as belonging to her. But she is hung round with nets and snares with which to catch you with a bastard and adulterated beauty, which you, beholding beforehand, will, if you are wise, take care that her pursuit shall be unprofitable to her; for when she appears she conciliates your eyes, and when she speaks she wins over your ears; and by these, and by all other parts of her conduct, she is well calculated by nature to injure your soul, which is the most valuable of all your possessions; and all the different circumstances belonging to her, which were likely to be attractive to you if you heard of them, she enumerated; but all those which would not have been alluring she suppressed and made no mention of, but, meaning mischief to you, concealed utterly, as she very naturally expected that no one would readily agree with them."

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

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1 post μεγαλοφροσύνη add. μεγαλειότης A1G1 μακαριωσύνη Α1 ἡ om. Pap
2 τὰ om. MA1G1UN τὰ ὀνόματα MA1G1
3 στᾶσα F, πᾶσαι MG2 ἑαυτῇ] αὐτὴ MA1G1 4.
5 καὶ μυθολόγον om. FN
5 τραγικωτέραν G2HPFN, τραγικωτέρως Α2Β ἐσκευασμένην U, ἀνεσκευασμένην N
6 ὥστε Pap MG1: ὥστ’ ceteri
8 τῆ γυναικὶ om. Α2Β, ἐν τῆ γυναικὶ N
9 μηδὲ A-B 9.
10 ἐμπορήση A2B
10 τὴν κακοπραγίαν G1 πᾶσαν ᾗ κέχρηται trausp. A2B ἀλλοτρία πᾶσα MA1G1
11 ἴστε G2P ἴσθι· τῶν] αἰσθητῶν ’, αἰσθητὸν M ἑαυτῆς Pap Α1: αὑτῆς MA2BG1, αὐτῆς G-HPUFN φέρεται MA1G1, περιφέρεται B
πάγας] πάσας N
13 προειδόμενος Pap et codd. εὖ φρονήσῃς MA1G1, ἐυφροσύνης (sic) Pap: εὖ φρονῇς ceteri αὐτῇ om. G
14 γὰρ om. G2 ηδυνη Pap δὲ om. Pap
15 πλείστων U: πλεῖστον G1, πλείστου ceteri (et Pap)
16 πάντων U αὑτὴν] αὐτὴν codd., ἑαυτοῦ Pap
17 προσηνεῖ HF γενέσθαι ’ διεξελθὸν Pap δὲ Pap ’: δ’ ceteri
18 ἀπεκρύψατο MABG1P

2.
6 sqq. ibid. palam, inquit, apparui tibi non quaefrenti me, ne fallat imprudentem et circumveniat te mulier effrenata et luxuriosa quae non novit pudorem.
10 sqq. ibid. . . . non te vincat formae concupiscentia: adulterina est, fucis illita, nequaquam vero ac sincero fulgens decore . . . mala sunt voluptatis vincula: oculos delectat, lectat, demulcet aures, sed mentem inquinat; multa mentitur, falsa adiungit, vera subducit.

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