Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 19

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[19] ἐὰν οὖν τινα θεάσῃ σῖτα καὶ ποτὰ μὴ ἐν καιρῷ προσιέμενον ἢ λουτρὰ καὶ ἀλείμματα παραιτούμενον ἢ τῶν περὶ σῶμα σκεπασμάτων ἀμελοῦντα ἢ χαμευνίαις καὶ δυσαυλίαις χρώμενον, εἶτ’ ἐκ τούτων ἐπιμορφάζοντα ἐγκράτειαν, οἶκτον λαβὼν τῆς
περὶ αὐτὸν πλάνης τὴν ἀληθῆ τῆς ἐγκρατείας ὁδὸν δεῖξον· ἃ γὰρ ἐπετήδευσεν, ἀνήνυτοι καὶ ἄτρυτοι πόνοι λιμῷ καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις κακώσεσι ψυχὴν καὶ σῶμα ἐκτραχηλίζοντες.

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.) — 19 focus

[19] If, therefore, you see any one desiring meat or drink at an unseasonable time, or repudiating baths or ointments at the proper season, or neglecting the proper clothing for his body, or lying on the ground and sleeping in the open air, and by such conduct as this, pretending to a character for temperance and self-denial, you, pitying his self-deception, should show him the true path of temperance, for all the practises in which he has been indulging are useless and profitless labours, oppressing both his soul and body with hunger and all sorts of other hardships.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 19

ed. Leopold Cohn

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