Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 31

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[31] πρὶν δὲ περὶ τῶν ἰδίων ἄρξασθαι, ὅσα ἂν ἐνδέχηται τῶν ὑπ’
ἐκείνης ἡσυχασθέντων ὑπομνήσω· εἰποῦσα γὰρ περὶ ὧν ἐθησαυρίσατο χρωμάτων φωνῶν ἀτμῶν χυλῶν ποιοτήτων δυνάμεων τῶν κατὰ ἁφὴν καὶ πᾶσαν αἴσθησιν καὶ τῷ τῆς ἀκροάσεως ἐφηδύνασα προσαγωγῷ τὰς ἄλλας νόσους καὶ κῆρας ἑαυτῆς οὐκ ἐμήνυσεν, αἷς ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἐκεῖνα αἱρούμενος χρήσῃ, ἵνα αὔρᾳ τινὸς ὠφελείας ἐπαρθεὶς ἐντὸς ἀρκύων
ληφθῇς.

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.) — 31 focus

[31] For she, when she spoke of what she had stored up in her magazines, such as colours, sounds, flavours, smells, distinctive qualities, powers relating to touch and to every one of the outward senses, and having softened them all by the allurements which she offered to the hearing, made no mention at all of those other qualities which are her misfortunes and diseases; which, however, you will of necessity experience if you choose those pleasures which she offers; that so, being borne aloft by the breeze of some advantage, you may be taken in her toils.

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