Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 109

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[109] τίς γὰρ ἂν
ὁμοίως γονεῦσι καὶ τέκνοις διαλεχθείη, τῶν μὲν φύσει δοῦλος, τῶν δὲ γένει δεσπότης ὤν; τίς δ’ ἂν ἀδελφοῖς καὶ ἀνεψιοῖς ἢ συνόλως τοῖς ἐγγὺς γένους καὶ μακρὰν οὖσιν; τίς δ’ ἂν οἰκείοις καὶ ἀλλοτρίοις, ἢ ¹ πολίταις καὶ ξένοις, οὐ μικρὰς οὐδὲ * * * τύχης ἢ φύσεως ἢ ἡλικίας ἔχουσι διαφοράς; πρεσβύτῃ γὰρ ἑτέρως ὁμιλητέον καὶ νέῳ, καὶ πάλιν ἐνδόξῳ καὶ ταπεινῷ, καὶ πλουσίῳ καὶ πένητι, καὶ ἄρχοντι καὶ ἰδιώτῃ, καὶ θεράποντι καὶ δεσπότῃ, γυναικί τε αὖ καὶ ἀνδρί, καὶ ἀτέχνῳ καὶ τεχνίτῃ.

De Posteritate Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Posteritate Caini (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Posterity of Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 109 focus

[109] for who would converse in a similar manner with parents and children, being by nature the slave of the one, and by birth the master of the others? And who, again, would talk in the same manner to brothers or cousins; or, in short, to near and to distant relations? Who, again, could do so to friends and to strangers, to fellow citizens and to foreigners, though there may be no great difference in point of fortune, or nature, or age between them? For one must behave differently while associating with an old man and with a young one; and, again, with a man of high reputation and a humble man, with a servant and a master; and, again, with a woman and a man, and with an illiterate and a clever man.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
2 γὰρ add. Mang., ἐπεὶ τὸ conicio
4 φύσις Mang.: φωνῇ U διπλάσασα U
5 χρωματικὰ scripsi: χρωματιστικὰ U διατονικὰ Mang.: διὰ τὸν· κὰ U
7 ὅσα (vel ἴσως) Mang.: ὅσως U, ὅλως coni. Holwerda
8 μελῳδοῦσι U: μελῳδίας ὄργανα Maug.
9 ἀπολείπεται scripsi: ἀπολείπονται U
10 φθαρτὸν Mang.: ἄφθαρτον U γένους Mang.: γένος U
11 ᾦ Mang.: ὡς U
12 κλάσει scripsi: κλάσιν U, κράσει Mang.
13 ταῖς Cohn: τῆ U ἐπαλλήλοις U ἐπαλλήλῳ Mang. μεταβολαῖς Cohn: μεταβολῆ U
16 κηδῶν an κηλῶν habeat U, incertum
19 ἐμμελὴς scripsi: εὐμελὴς U
20 εἴ secludit Cohn
21 πλεχθεὶς U τἀγκαῖον U
23 τις scripsi: ἐστιν U, ἐστι καὶ Mang.
25 τέκνοις Mang.: τέχναις U
26 γενέσει conicio καὶ Cohn: ἢ U

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 109

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