Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 140

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[140] τεχνικώτατα μέντοι χαρακτηρίζει τὴν τῆς διδασκούσης καὶ ¹² ὠφελούσης ὑφήγησιν· „σπεύσασα“ γάρ φησι „καθεῖλε τὴν ὑδρίαν ἐπὶ τὸν βραχίονα αὐτῆς“, διὰ μὲν τοῦ σπουδάσαι τῆς πρὸς τὸ εὐεργετεῖν ἐμφαινομένης ὀξύτητος, ἣ ἀπὸ γνώμης συνίσταται, ἧς ὑπερόριος ἐκτετόξευται φθόνος, διὰ δὲ τοῦ καθελεῖν ἐπὶ τὸν βραχίονα αὐτῆς τῆς
πρὸς τὸν μανθάνοντα τοῦ διδάσκοντος ἐπικλινοῦς καὶ προσεχοῦς οἰκειώσεως.

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.) — 140 focus

[140] But he describes in a most skilful manner the language used by her who teaches and benefits her pupils. For "she made haste," he says, "and took down the pitcher on her arm." Her alacrity to serve the man was displayed by her making haste, and such alacrity is seated in the mind, beyond which envy is cast away. But by the expression, "taking down the pitcher on her arm," we see intimated the prompt and eager attention of the teacher to the pupil;

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 μετροῦντος] κατηγοροῦντος conicio, μεταγνόντος coni. Cohn
2 γινομένου Diels: γενομένου U
3 γὰρ del. Ilolwerda
4 ἑν τοῖς coni. Cohn τοῖς προπαιδεύμασι) τοῖς ἐγκυκλίοις Mang.: τοὺς παιδεύμασι καὶ ἐγκυκλίους U τῆς παιδείας τῆς ἐγκυκλίου χηρευούσῃ Tisch. ἐγχορευούσῃ Mang.: χορευούση U
5 σωματικῶν Tisch.: ἀσωμάτων U τῆς scripsi: τῶν U αἰσθήσεως U: αἰσθήσεων v ἀγγείων τῶν αἰσθήσεων coni. Cohn
8 τὸ add. Mang. παράπαν U (non παρὰ τοῦ, ut Tisch. adnot.)
9 λογισμῶ U: λογισμῶν v
12 ὑδρευσαμένην U (non ὑδρευσαμένους, ut Tisch. adnot.)
17 ἀθροῦ U
18 μόνος D: μόνον τὸ δόγμα τὸ στωικόν conicio
24 τεχνικῷ U

2. 18.
19 DP fol. 331v DV p. 693 Φίλωνος): μόνος ὁ σοφὸς ἐλεύθερός τε — δεσπότας. — Eadem exstant in Floril. Paris. No. 10, Anton. Mel. I
8 Col. 797, Mel. Barocc. fol. 60v, in Maximi Ecl. cap. 2. ubique antecedunt verba: φρόνησις τῶν ἄλλων ἀρετῶν ἄρχει. (fol. Coisliniani 294, in quo eadem exstant, Eitero teste ex Maximi codice Coisl. 372 illuc delatum est).

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 140

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