Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 173

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[173] οὕτως μὲν ἐν τῷ σοφῷ τὰ ἑπτὰ φαίνεται καθαρά, κατὰ δὲ τὰ ἐναντία ἐν τῷ φαύλῳ πάντα ἐκδικούμενα· πόσην γὰρ ὑπολαμβάνομεν πληθὺν καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ὑπ’ ὀφθαλμῶν προδίδοσθαι πρὸς τὰ χρώματα καὶ σχήματα καὶ ἃ μὴ θέμις
ὁρᾶν αὐτομολούντων; πόσην δὲ ὑπὸ ὤτων ἁπάσαις φωναῖς ἐπακολουθούντων; πόσην δὲ πρὸς τῶν ὀσφρήσεως καὶ γεύσεως ὀργάνων ὑπό τε ἀτμῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπλέτοις ποικιλίαις ἀγομένων;

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.) — 173 focus

[173] Thus, in the wise man, the seven senses appear to be pure; and on the contrary in the wicked man, they appear to be all liable to punishment. For how great a multitude of things do we imagine to be each day wrongly represented by our eyes, which go over to colours and shapes, and to things which it is not lawful to see? And how so great a multitude of things suffer similar treatment from the ears which follow all kinds of sounds? How many too are misrepresented by the organs of smelling and of taste, and by flavours and vapours, and other things led on according to innumerable variations?

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 173

ed. Leopold Cohn

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