Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 129

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[129] 35 παγκάλως οὖν εἴρηται, ὅτι ἐξέρχεται ὁ λόγος τοῖς νοήμασιν ὑπαντησόμενος, καὶ ἐπιτρέχει γε σπουδάζων καταλαβεῖν αὐτά, διὰ τὸν τοῦ μηνῦσαι πόθον. ἑκάστῳ γὰρ τὸ ἴδιον ἔργον
ποθεινότατον· ἴδιον δὲ λόγου τὸ λέγειν, πρὸς ὃ οἰκειώσει φυσικῇ τινι σπεύδει. γέγηθε δὲ καὶ χαίρει, ὅταν ὥσπερ ἐναυγασθεὶς ἴδῃ καὶ καταλάβῃ τὸν νοῦν τοῦ δηλουμένου πράγματος ἄκρως· τότε γὰρ περιδραξάμενος ἄριστος ἑρμηνεὺς γίνεται.

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

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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.) — 129 focus

Very beautifully, therefore, was it said that speech goes forth to meet the conceptions, and that it runs on endeavouring to overtake them, from its desire of giving information respecting them, for everything has the greatest affection for its own proper employment; and the proper employment of speech is to speak, to which employment therefore it hastens by a kind of natural kindred and propriety. And it rejoices and exults when, shedding its rays upon it as it were, it accurately sees and overtakes the sense of the matter exhibited; for then, seizing it in its embrace, it becomes its most excellent interpreter.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 129

ed. Leopold Cohn

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