Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 149

ed. Paul Wendland

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[149] οὕτως δὲ καὶ ἡ
ψυχὴ τοῦ φιλομαθοῦς, ὅταν ἐπιφορηθῇ τὸ τῶν θεωρημάτων ἄχθος, ταπεινοτέρα μὲν οὐ γίνεται, διαναστᾶσα δὲ γέγηθεν· ἐκ δὲ τῆς ἐπαναπολήσεως καὶ ὥσπερ ἐπιλεάνσεως τῆς πρῶτον καταβληθείσης τροφῆς περιγίνεται μνήμη τῶν θεωρημάτων.

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.) — 149 focus

[149] and in the same manner also, the soul of the man who is devoted to learning, when the burden of its speculations is placed upon it, becomes more lowly, and when it has risen up it rejoices; and from the mastication, and as it were the softening, of the first food that is placed down before it, arises its memory of those speculations.

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