Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 52

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[52] 15 ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν πᾶσα πόλις ἐξ οἰκοδομημάτων καὶ οἰκητόρων καὶ νόμων συνέστηκε, τὰ μὲν οἰκοδομήματά ἐστιν
αὐτῷ λόγοι οἱ ἀποδεικνύντες, οἷς καθάπερ ἀπὸ τείχους πρὸς τὰς τῶν ἐναντίων ἀπομάχεται προσβολὰς πιθανὰς εὑρέσεις κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας μυθοπλαστῶν, οἰκήτορες δὲ οἱ ἀσεβείας, ἀθεότητος, φιλαυτίας, μεγαλαυχίας, ψευδοῦς δόξης ἑταῖροι δοκησίσοφοι, τὸ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν σοφὸν οὐκ εἰδότες, ἄγνοιαν καὶ ἀπαιδευσίαν καὶ ἀμαθίαν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀδελφὰς
καὶ συγγενεῖς κῆρας συγκεκροτηκότες, νόμοι δὲ ἀνομίαι, ἀδικίαι, τὸ ¹² ἄνισον, τὸ ἀκόλαστον, θρασύτης, ἀπόνοια, αὐθάδεια, ἡδονῶν ἀμετρίαι, τῶν παρὰ φύσιν ἄλεκτοι ἐπιθυμίαι.

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 52 focus

Since, therefore, every city consists of houses and inhabitants, and laws, the houses, in Cain’s case, are the reasons which he alleges to prove his point; by which, as from a wall, he fights against the persuasive attacks of his enemies; inventing fabulous devices against the truth. The inhabitants are the companions of impiety, ungodliness, self-love, haughtiness, falsehood, vain opinions; the men wise in their own conceit, the men who know not wisdom as relating to truth, the men who are full of ignorance, and stupidity, and folly; and all the other similar and kindred evils. The laws are, lawlessness, injustice, inequality, intemperance, boldness, folly, ¹² insolence, immoderate indulgence in pleasure, and innumerable appetites in despite of nature.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 σκύψασθαι U
2 μεγέθους Mang.: μέγεθος U, εὐμεγέθους Diels
3 τοῖς U: om. v
4 ὑπόρεια U ἐνδιαίτημα scripsi: διαίτημα U
5 μόνῳ κτίζειν ἑαυτῷ
6 ἂν add. Tisch.
9 τίν’ ἄν, εἰπέ, τρόπον Holwerda ἔστι U (uon ἐπὶ, ut adnot. Tisch.)
11 τειχῶν scripsi: τείχη U
12 πόλει Tisch.: πόλεων U
13 ἔθος U (non ἔθ’, ut adnot. Tisch.)
14 ὀχετοὺς ut vid. U: ὀχετεύειν Tisch., ὀχετοὺς ἄγειν Otto κτὰ scripsi: καὶ U
15 ὑδρορὰς U
17 αὐτοῦ U
18 κατασκευάζειν ὁ Κάιν Mang.: κατακευάζει ὃ καὶ U
21 εὑρέσεις] ῥήσεις coni. Mang.
23 ψεύδους U ·ἑταῖροι Mang.: ἕτεροι U

2.
1 —
3 Auyustinus Quaest. lib. 1,1: Quomodo Cain potuerit condere civitatem, cum civitas alicui utique constituatur hominum multitudini, illi autera duo parentes et duo filii fuisse referantur, quorum filiorum ab altero alter occisus est, in cuius occisi locum alius natus esse narratur.

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 52

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