Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 35

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[35] τὰ ἡδέα φερούσαις. 11 τοιουτονί τινα δόλιχον ἀπομηκύναντες λόγῳ νικᾶν τοὺς οὐκ εἰωθότας σοφιστεύειν ἔδοξαν. αἰτία δὲ τῆς νίκης οὐχ ἡ τῶν περιγεγενημένων ἰσχύς, ἀλλ’ ἡ περὶ ταῦτα τῶν ἀντιπάλων ἀσθένεια. τῶν γὰρ ἐπιτηδευόντων ἀρετὴν οἱ μὲν ἐν ψυχῇ μόνῃ τὸ καλὸν ἐθησαυρίσαντο
πράξεων ἐπαινετῶν ἀσκηταὶ γενόμενοι, τερθρείας λόγων ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὄναρ ἐπῃσθημένοι, τοῖς δὲ ἀμφότερα ἐξεγένετο, τὴν μὲν διάνοιαν εὐβουλίᾳ καὶ ἀγαθοῖς ἔργοις, τοὺς δὲ λόγους ταῖς περὶ αὐτοὺς τέχναις μάλιστα ὀχυρώσασθαι·

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.) — 35 focus

Arguing therefore in this prolix train of reasoning, they thought that they got the better of those who were not accustomed to deal in sophistry. But the cause of their victory was not the strength of those who got the better, but the weakness of their adversaries in these matters. For of those who practise virtue, some treasured up what is good in their soul alone, becoming practisers of praiseworthy actions, and having no knowledge whatever of sophistries of words. But they who were armed in both ways, having their minds furnished with wise counsel and with good deeds, and having also good store of reasons to bring forward according to the arts of the sophists,

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