Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 165

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[165] 48 ταῦροι δὲ καὶ κριοὶ καὶ τράγοι, οὓς Αἴγυπτος διὰ τιμῆς ἔχει, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα φθαρτῆς ὕλης ἀφιδρύματα, ἀκοῇ μόνον νομίζονται θεοί, πρὸς ἀλήθειαν οὐκ ὄντες, ψευδώνυμοι πάντες. ἁπαλαῖς γὰρ ἔτι ταῖς τῶν νέων ψυχαῖς οἱ τραγῳδίαν τὸν βίον τύφων ἐρώντων νομίζοντες κεκιβδηλευμένους χαρακτῆρας ἐναπομάττονται, διακόνοις ἀκοαῖς χρώμενοι,
ὧν μυθικὸν λῆρον καταχέαντες καὶ μέχρι διανοίας αὐτῶν ἐντήξαντες θεοπλαστεῖν τοὺς τὰ φρονήματα ἄνδρας μὲν μηδέποτε γινομένους ἀεὶ δὲ ¹ θηλυδρίας ὄντας ἠνάγκασαν.

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.) — 165 focus

But bulls, and rams, and goats, which Egypt holds in honour, and all other images of corruptible matter which, in report alone, are accounted God’s, have no real existence, but are all fictitious and false; for those who look upon life as only a tragedy full of acts of arrogance and stories of love, impressing false ideas on the tender minds of young men, and using the ears as their ministers, into which they pour fabulous trifles, waste away and corrupt their minds, compelling them to look upon persons who were never even men in their minds, but always effeminate creatures as God’s;

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 κατηλέησε U
3 μακρὰν Mang.: μακρὰ U
7 ἰδίας v
8 μὴ add. Mang. μέρους Mang.: μέρος U
9 ἱδρυθείη Cohn: ἰδρυνθῆναι U εἰ καὶ conicio
10 τοι U (non τι)
11 φθάνει U: φθείρει Mang.
12 ἀποκλύσασα Diels: προσκλύσαι U, προσκλύσσα Mang.
15 ἐπεγίνοντ’ ἄν conicio λόγῳ Holwerda: λόγων U θεωρητῶν U: θεωρητικῶν ὡς Tisch., σπερματικῶν Mang.
16 ἐπάντλησις olim coniciebam ποτίζειν ἀπαξιοῖ m2 in mg., propter rasuras legi non potest textus U οὐκ οὐκ ἀξιοῖ? ἀξιοῖ Mang. ὁ add. Tisch.
18 καταλέσαντας Mang.: καταλύσαντας U
20 οὐδ’ Holwerda: οὐκ U
24 τύφου γέμοντα conicio, τυφογερόντων coni. Tisch. βίον νομίζοντες, τύφων καὶ ἐρώτων coni. Mang.
25 ἐναπομάττοντες U, corr. Maug.
26 ὧν] τὸν HOlwerda αὐτὸν Mang.

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 165

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