Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 38

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[38] 12 οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι Μωυσῆς τοὺς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τῷ σώματι σοφιστάς, οὓς φαρμακέας ὀνομάζει, παραιτεῖται — σοφισμάτων γὰρ τέχναις καὶ ¹² ἀπάταις ἤθη χρηστὰ τρόπον τινὰ φαρμακεύεται καὶ διαφθείρεται — p. 199 M. φάσκων μὴ εἶναι „εὔλογος“ (Exod. 4,10), ἴσον τῷ μὴ πεφυκέναι πρὸς τὴν τῶν εὐλόγων καὶ πιθανῶν εἰκαστικὴν ῥητορείαν, ἔπειθ’ ἑξῆς διαβεβαιούμενος, ὅτι οὐ μόνον οὐκ εὔλογος ἀλλὰ καὶ παντελῶς „ἄλογός“
ἐστιν (Exod. 6, 12) ; ἄλογος δέ, οὐχ ὥς φαμεν τὰ μὴ λογικὰ τῶν ζῴων, ἀλλ’ ὁ μὴ δικαιῶν τῷ διὰ τοῦ φωνητηρίου ὀργάνου γεγωνῷ λόγῳ χρῆσθαι, μόνῃ δὲ σημειούμενος καὶ ἐνσφραγιζόμενος διανοίᾳ τὰ τῆς ἀληθοῦς σοφίας, ἥτις ἀντίθετός ἐστι ψευδεῖ σοφιστείᾳ, θεωρήματα.

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.) — 38 focus

And it is on this account, as you see, that Moses rejected the sophists in Egypt, that is to say, in the body whom he calls magicians (for it is owing to the tricks and deceits of their sophistical tricks that good dispositions and good habits are infected and corrupted), saying that he was "not an eloquent man," ¹ which is equivalent to saying that he was not formed by nature for the conjectural rhetoric of plausible and specious reasons. And immediately afterwards he confirms the assertion by adding, that he is not only not eloquent, but altogether "void of words," ² meaning this, not ³⁴ in the sense in which we do when we call animals void of words, but speaking of himself as one who did not choose to employ words by means of his organs of speech, but who impresses and stamps the principles of true wisdom upon his mind alone, which is the most perfect opposite to false sophistry.

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Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

1.
1 πανδεχῆ] πανταχῆ L
2 τοιουτονί codd.; τοιοῦτόν Mang. δολιχὸν F λόγων coiii. Wendl.
7 τοῖς δὲ codd.: οἷς D (Mang.) εὐβούλοις DR
8 αὐτοὺς] αὐτοῦ HL
9 τούτους D μὲν οὖν om. D
10 εὐπρεπές UF οἷς] οἱ D ἐναντία (sic) F ἀμυνοῦνται coni. Wendl. πεπορισμένους FH
11 πρότερον F οὐδὲ μία UFH
13 ἔμαθεν UD
14 τὸ ante πεδίον om. F
15 πᾶς] πάντως coni. Wendl. IG ἄμεινον DC δ’] δὲ D
17 προσαγορεύουσιν UD ἀψευδοῦσι HLDC; ἀψευδοῦς εἰ U, ψεύδουσι F, ἀψευδέσι DR
18 οὐχ UF: οὗ χάριν HL
19 ante οὓς add.: φαρμακέας ὡς βασιλέας· ἐπεὶ καὶ φαρμακίδες ὡς βασιλίδες καὶ φαρμακεὺς τοίνυν ὡς βασιλεύς, ὅτι καὶ φαρμακὶς ὡς βασιλίς UF τὸ φαρμακέας ὡς βασιλέας σχόλιον ἦν ἔξωθεν κείμενον· ἐτέθη δὲ ἐντὸς ἀπροσεξίᾳ τοῦ γράψαντος mg. F man. rec), φαρμακέας ὡς βασιλέας—φαρμακὶς ὡς βασιλίς· κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν τούτου κεῖται· τοὺς ἐν Αἰγυπτίῳ τῷ σώματι σοφιστάς HL (Turn.) ; glossema expunxit Mang.

2. 7—10 Dc fol. 120r Dr fol. 110r τοῦ αὐτοῦ (scil. Φίλωνος) ἐκ τοῦ ζ' καὶ η' τῆς ἱερῶν ἀλληγορίας: οἷς ἀμφότερα ἐξεγένετο — οἲ τοὺς ἐναντίους ἀμύνονται.
13 —
17 ibid. ὃς δὲ τέχνας μὲν λόγων οὑκ ἔμαθεν, διανοίᾳ δὲ μόνῃ τὸ καλὸν οἶδεν, τὴν εἰς τὴν ἅμιλλαν ἄφιξιν παραιτείσθω καὶ τῆς τοῦ δυσμενοῦς δυναμένου DC) προκλήσεως ἀλογείτω· ἥττης γὰρ πᾶς ὄκνος ἀμείνων (ἄμεινον D C)· τὸν δὲ ὄκνον τοῦτον οἱ μὲν ἐχθροὶ δειλίαν, ἀσφάλειαν δὲ οἱ φίλοι προσαγορεύουσιν· φίλοις δὲ πρὸ δυσμενῶν ἅτε ἀψευδοῦσι (ἀψευδέσι DR) πιστευτέον.

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