Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 111

ed. Paul Wendland

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[111] παρέχουσι δ’ ὥσπερ τὰ πράγματα καὶ τὰ πρόσωπα τῷ λόγῳ μεταβολάς, οὕτως καὶ αἱ τῶν γινομένων αἰτίαι καὶ οἱ τρόποι καθ’ οὓς γίνεται, προσέτι μέντοι καὶ τὰ ὧν οὐκ ἄνευ πάντα, χρόνοι καὶ τόποι. παγκάλως οὖν ὁ μετακλίνων λόγους Ἰουβὰλ πατὴρ εἴρηται ψαλτηρίου καὶ κιθάρας, ἀπὸ
μέρους τῆς ὅλης μουσικῆς, ὡς ἐπιδέδεικται.

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.) — 111 focus

[111] But as circumstances and persons give varieties to speech, so also do the causes of things and the manner in which they are done; and, moreover, those points especially with which everything is concerned, namely, time and place. Very beautifully, therefore, is he who inclines voices, namely Jubal, called "the father of the psaltery and of the harp," from a portion of the whole science of music, as has been shown already.

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