Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 147

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[147] μετὰ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ τὸ ἄφθονον αὐτῆς καταπέπληγμαι. μικρὸν γὰρ αἰτηθεῖσα πόμα πολὺ δίδωσιν, ἕως ὅλην τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ μανθάνοντος
ποτίμων θεωρημάτων ἐπλήρωσεν. λέγει γάρ· „ἐπότισεν αὐτὸν ἕως ἐπαύσατο πίνων“, πρὸς φιλανθρωπίαν δίδαγμα θαυμασιώτατον· ἐὰν γάρ ¹² τις πλειόνων μὲν τυγχάνῃ χρεῖος ὤν, ὀλίγα δὲ ὑπ’ αἰδοῦς προσιὼν αἰτῇ, μὴ ταῦθ’ ἅ φησι μόνα παρέχωμεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἡσυχαζόμενα ἐκεῖνα, ὧν πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἐνδεής ἐστιν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 147 focus

[147] And beyond all other things, I especially admire her exceeding liberality; for though she had only been asked for a small draught, she gave a large one, until she had filled the whole soul of the learner with wholesome speculations. For Moses says, "She gave him to drink till he ceased from drinking," a most marvellous example to teach us humanity. For if any one should not happen to be in want of many things, but should come forward, and out of shame ask only for a very little, let us not give him only what he mentions, but also those things of which he makes no mention, but of which he is nevertheless in reality in need.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 ante τῷ add. ἡμᾶς D, ἡμῖν couicio αὐτοῦ U
2 τελειότητος D: λογιότητος U δὲ et
3 ἀεὶ om. D
3 δύναμιν μετρουμένους conicio ων coni. Mang.
4 κρειττόνων DC; κρείττονος D R, κρεισσόνων U ἦ ἀψευδέστατοι coni. Mang. δοκοῦσιν] ὁμολογοῦσιν conicio, φάναι δοκοῦσιν coni.
8 χωρῆσαι U
9 ὑετῶν καὶ ἀνέμων conicio
10 καταταγμένας U
11 αὐτοῦ conicio
13 κορεσθέντας ἐξυβρίσαι Mang.: κορεσθὲν ἐξύβρισε U
16 γεννητὸν UDC
17 μὲν om. DK χαρισμάτων D
18 ῥώμην D c ἀδύνατον D R
19 δι’ ἃ D
2 R ἔχειν x003E; ὧν conicio
22 δὲ seclusit Tisch.

2. 16—
20 ibid. τὸ γὰρ γενητὸν — σταθμᾶται eadem habet D R fol. 142v (=D2R)

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 147

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