Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 157

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[157] τὰ γὰρ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἀναγκαῖα καὶ τίμια καὶ γνήσια ὡς ἀληθῶς ἀγαθὰ ταῦτα· φαγεῖν, πιεῖν, [περιβαλέσθαι,] ποικιλίαις χρωμάτων δι’ ὄψεως ἡσθῆναι, μελῳδίαις παντοδαπῶν ἤχων δι’ ἀκοῆς τερφθῆναι, ἀτμῶν ἀποφοραῖς εὐώδεσι διὰ μυκτήρων γανωθῆναι, ταῖς γαστρὸς καὶ
μετὰ γαστέρα ἡδοναῖς ἁπάσαις εἰς κόρον χρήσασθαι, τῆς ἀργύρου καὶ ¹² χρυσοῦ κτήσεως μὴ ἀμελῆσαι, τιμὰς καὶ ἀρχὰς καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα συντείνοντα πρὸς δόξαν περιβαλέσθαι· φρόνησιν δ’ ἢ καρτερίαν ἢ δικαιοσύνης αὐστηρὰς διαθέσεις ἐπίπονον παρασκευαζούσας βίον ἐῶμεν· εἰ δ’ ἄρα καὶ χρηστέον αὐταῖς, οὐχ ὡς ἀγαθοῖς τελείοις χρηστέον, ἀλλὰ ὡς ποιητικοῖς ἀγαθοῦ.

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.) — 157 focus

[157] Now the things which among us are accounted necessary and valuable and genuine real goods are these; to eat, to drink, to be clothed in various colours and fashions; by means of the faculty of sight, to be delighted with pleasant sights; by means of one’s faculty of hearing to be delighted with melodies of all sorts of sounds; to be gratified through our nostrils with fragrant exhalations of odours; to indulge in all the pleasures of the belly and of the parts adjacent to the belly to satiety; not to be indifferent to the acquisition of silver and gold; to be invested with honours and post of authority, and all other things which may tend to man’s reputation; but as for prudence, or fortitude, or justice, austere dispositions which only make life laborious, those we pass by, and if we are forced to admit them into one calculation we must do so, not as perfect goods in themselves, but only as efficients of good.

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Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

1.
1 ἀλλὰ F
2 μετεμβῆναι F εἰ τὸ ὄν scripsi: εἴτ’ οὖν UHL, εἴτουν F, εἰ γοῦν Mang.
3 ἐβουλήθη HL: ἐβλήθη UF
5 δ’ om. UF
6 εἰ om. UF
7 καθ’ ἓν πάντως transp. U
8 τοῦ παντὸς UF: τοῦ om. HL
9 τῳ] τὸ UL μηδὲν L ὑπολελεῖφθαι UFH: ὑπολειφθῆναι L τὸν δημιουργὸν codd.: τοῦ δημιουργοῦ v ὅλων UF: ὅλου HL
10 ἀναλώσαντα codd.: ἀναλώσαντος v
15 ἐξαρτάτω H
17 ἐκβάλλεις FH: ἐκβαλεῖς UL ἀπὸ προσώπου UF: ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου HL
18 τουτέστιν codd. γῆς UF: τῆς γῆς HL
20 ἀνθρωπείων UF: ἀνθρωπίων H. ἀνθρωπίνων L εἰ μὴ τῶν ἀνθρωπείων transp. U
22 περιβαλέσθαι seclusit Wendl. (cf. 294,2) ποικιλίαις UF: ποικίλαις HL ποικίλαις χρωμάτων ἰδέαις Mang.
23 δι’ ὄψεως om. H ἡσθῆναι ἡδέως ἡσθῆναι HL
24 ταῖς] τῆς F

2.
9 sqq. cf. Platonis Tim. p.
32 C

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