Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 174

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[174] ἔτι τοίνυν σοι λέγω τὸ πλῆθος ὧν ἀχαλίνου γλώττης ῥεῦμα ἀνεπίσχετον διέφθειρεν ἢ ὁ περὶ τὰς μίξεις μετ’ ἐπιθυμίας ἀκρατοῦς ἀνίατος οἶστρος; μεσταὶ μὲν
αἱ πόλεις, μεστὴ δὲ ἀπὸ περάτων ἐπὶ πέρατα πᾶσα ἡ γῆ τῶν κακῶν τούτων, ἐξ ὧν ὁ συνεχὴς καὶ ἄπαυστος καὶ μέγιστος πολέμων ὁ κατ’ εἰρήνην ἀνθρώπων γένει καὶ ἰδίᾳ καὶ κοινῇ φύεται.

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.) — 174 focus

[174] I say nothing of that multitude of persons whom the unrestrainable impetuosity of an unbridled tongue has destroyed, or the incurable violence which leads man on to carnal connections with intemperate appetite. Cities are full, and all the earth from one side to the other, is full of these evils, in consequence of which, continual and unceasing and terrible wars are set on foot among men, even in times of peace, both publicly and privately.

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