Philo Judaeus, De Agricultura, ed. Paul Wendland, 109

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[109] ὁ δὲ τοῦ Δάν, εἰκών τις ὢν ἐρρωμενεστάτης ἀρετῆς ¹ καρτερίας, ἵππον, τὸ πάθους καὶ κακίας σύμβολον, δήξεται, διότι σωφροσύνη τὴν τούτων καθαίρεσίν τε καὶ φθορὰν μελετᾷ. δηχθέντων μέντοι καὶ ὀκλασάντων „ὁ ἱππεὺς“ φησί „πεσεῖται“.

De Agricultura. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Agricultura (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 109 focus

[109] and the serpent of Dan being a sort of image of vigorous virtue and of patient endurance, will bite the horse, who is the emblem of passion and wickedness, because temperance is occupied about the over throw and destruction of these things. Accordingly, when they are bitten and when they have fallen, "the horseman also," says Moses, "will fall;"

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De agricultura

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1 κληθήσεται G ἔχεσθαι GH2: εὔχεσθαι MAH1 τῆς ὀρθῆς ὁδοῦ MAG: τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς ὀρθῆς Η
2 εἶπε GH1: εἰπεῖν MAH1 ἕξιν om. G
5 ταύτῃ MA: ταύτην GH φησὶν Η1
6 ἡδονὴν MAH1: ἡδονὴ GH2
7 ἐπιβαίνωσι καὶ ἐμπεριπατῶσι Α
8 μόνον add. Mang. 9—11 ἓν—πόνος add. tn. rec. mg. Η
14 ἑταιρίαν MG: ἑταιρείαν H, φροντίδα Α 14.
15 ἁπαξαπάντων Mang.
15 ὅτῳ] οὕτω L
16 φροντίς τις G 18—21 τότε—ἀνατρέψαι om. Η
18 τότε ὥς A: τὸ τέως MG ἀναγκαίᾳ coni. Mang.
19 τἀς Mang.: τὰ codd. οὐχ post τῆς add. A
21 ἐπὶ βάθρα Α
22 κατὰ MH φωνοῦντα Α ἐν ταῖς] αὐταῖς G
24 ὁ om. Α
25 ὁ GH2: τὸ MAH1 ὢν GH2: ὃν MAH1
26 τῶ] τὸ G1

Philo Judaeus De Agricultura 109

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