Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 106

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[106] ἤδη δὲ καὶ ἄμπελον ἰδὼν εὐθηνοῦσαν τὰς κληματίδας ἔτεινε κατὰ γῆς, τάφρους ὀρυξάμενος καὶ τὸν χοῦν αὖθις ἐπενεγκών· αἱ δ’ ἀντὶ p. 212 M. μερῶν ὅλαι καὶ ἀντὶ θυγατέρων μητέρες οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν ἐγίνοντο, ἔτι καὶ τῆς φύσει μητρὸς ἀποδύσασαι τὸ γῆρας· παυσαμένη γὰρ τοῦ διανέμειν καὶ κατακερματίζειν
τὴν τροφὴν πολλοῖς ἐκγόνοις ἅτε ἱκανοῖς γεγονόσιν ἐξ ἑαυτῶν τρέφεσθαι, παρ’ ἣν αἰτίαν λιμώττουσα ἠσθένει, μόλις διακορὴς ἐγένετο, ὡς πιανθεῖσαν πάλιν ἀνηβῆσαι.

Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 106 focus

[106] Again, when he sees a vine flourishing and luxuriant he bends down its young shoots to the ground, digging trenches to receive them, and again ¹²³ heaping up the ground on the top of them; and they at no distant period, instead of parts, become whole trees, and instead of daughters they become mothers, having moreover put off the old age which is the usual companion of maternity. For, having desisted from distributing and apportioning its nourishment amongst numerous offspring, inasmuch as they are able to support themselves, that which was previously weak from being drained by this cause becomes so fully satiated as to grow fat and young again.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 106

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