Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 110

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[110] ὅταν μέν γε αἱ αἰσθήσεις ἐξυβρίζωσι πρὸς τὰ ἐκτὸς αἰσθητὰ μετὰ ἀκατασχέτου ῥύμης ἐκφερόμεναι, μηχανῇ τινι ὧν ἡ τέχνη κατεσκευάσατο ῥᾳδίως στέλλονται· ὅταν δὲ
παλμῶδες ἐν ψυχῇ πάθος ὠμὸν γένηται κνησμοὺς καὶ γαργαλισμοὺς ἐξ ἡδονῆς καὶ ἐπιθυμίας ἢ πάλιν δηγμούς τε καὶ πτοίας ἐκ φόβου καὶ λύπης ἐμποιοῦν, προευτρεπισθέντι σωτηρίῳ πεπαίνεται φαρμάκῳ· καὶ μὴν εἴ τις ἐπινεμομένη κακία μηκύνεται, τῆς ἐν σώματι ἑρπηνώδους ἀδελφὴ νόσου, λόγῳ τομεῖ τῷ κατ’ ἐπιστήμην τέμνεται.

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.) — 110 focus

[110] but when an impetuous passion in the soul becomes violent, bringing forth voluptuous itchings and ticklings arising from pleasure or from appetite, or on the other hand, stings and agitation, caused by fear or grief, it is softened by the previously prepared saving medicine; and if any evil devouring as it goes, proceeds further, like a sister of the cancrous disease, which creeps over the body, it is cut out by reason which proceeds in its operations in accordance with knowledge.

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