Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 152

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[152] εἴπερ οὖν ἐκβληθείης ἀπὸ γῆς ἄνθρωπος ὤν, ποῖ
τετράψῃ; νήξῃ καθ’ ὕδατος τὴν τῶν ἐνύδρων ἀπομιμούμενος φύσιν; ἀλλ’ ὑποβρύχιος αὐτίκα τεθνήξῃ. ἀλλὰ πτερώσας καὶ μετεωρίσας σαυτὸν ἀεροβατεῖν ἐθελήσεις τὸ χερσαῖον εἰς πτηνοῦ γένος μεταβαλών; ἀλλ’ εἰ δύνασαι, μετάπλαττε καὶ μεταχάραττε τὸ θεῖον νόμισμα· ἀλλ’ οὐ δυνήσῃ· ὅσῳ γὰρ ἂν μετεωρότερον σεαυτὸν ἐξάρῃς, τοσούτῳ θᾶττον
ἀφ’ ὑψηλοτέρου μετὰ πλείονος φορᾶς ἐπὶ γῆν τὸ οἰκεῖον χωρίον ἐνεχθήσῃ.

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.) — 152 focus

[152] If, therefore you, being a man, should be cast out from the land, whither will you turn? Will you dive under water, imitating the nature of aquatic animals? But you will die the moment that you are underneath the water. Or will you take wings and raise yourself aloft, and so attempt to traverse the regions of the air, changing your character of a terrestrial, for that of a flying animal? But, if it is in your power, change and re-fashion the divine impress that you bear. You cannot do so. For in proportion as you raise yourself to a greater height, so much the more rapidly will you descend from that higher region and with the greater impetuosity to the earth, which is your appropriate place.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 152

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