Philo Judaeus, De Agricultura, ed. Paul Wendland, 134

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[134] ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὸ διχηλεῖν ἄνευ τοῦ μηρυκᾶσθαι καθ’ ἑαυτὸ φαίνεταί τινα ἔχειν ὄνησιν ἐξ αὑτοῦ. τί γὰρ ὄφελος τὰς φύσεις τῶν πραγμάτων τέμνειν ¹² ἄνωθεν ἀρξάμενον μέχρι τῶν λεπτοτάτων, εἰς τοὔσχατον δὲ αὐτὸ μηκέτι γίνεσθαι μηδὲ ἔχειν διαιρετὰ τὰ μέρη, ἅπερ ἄτομα καὶ ἀμερῆ πρὸς ἐνίων εὐθυβόλως ὀνομάζεται;

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.) — 134 focus

[134] Again, the dividing the hoof without chewing the cud does not by itself appear to bring any advantage with it. For what advantage is there in distinguishing the natures of things beginning at the top, and going down to the most unimportant points, and yet not to be able to do so in one’s self, not to have one’s own divisions clearly distinguished, which by some persons are with great felicity named atoms and indivisible portions?

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De agricultura

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1 οὐ ante πάντων add. v ἀποφήναντας αἴτιον Mang. ex cod. Coll. S. Trin. Β. 9.6: ἀποφήνας ἀναίτιον MAH, ἀποφήνασαν αἴτιον G, ἀποφῆναι ἀναίτιον Turn.
3 τε H2: om. ceteri
5 χρήσεται codd.: χρήσηται Mang. τίνας v δεῖ ὅσους] latet substantivum, velut καί τινας ἱεροσκόπους διόπους Cohn) καὶ post δεῖ add. v
8 ὑποσυγκεχύσθαι scripsi: ἐπισυγκεχύσθαι codd.
9 εἶναί φησι MAG: φησὶν εἶναι Η
10 μαρυκᾶται MAG οὐχὶ Α
11 αἰτία addidi
19 μνημονευτικοῦ A
20 οὗπερ scripsi: ὥσπερ codd. διττὰ scripsi: ἄττα MGH, ἆτά (sic) Α πὰ seclusi ἐργάσαιτο Α χείλη, ῥέων scripsi: ῥέων χείλη codd. χείλει Α
21 γένους secludit Mang.
22 καθ’ ἑαυτῶ AG post φαίνεται add. καθ’ ἑαυτῶ Α ἔχει AG
23 αὑτοῦ Η2: αὐτοῦ ceteri τὰς φύσεις Η2: τὰ φύσει ceteri

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9 sqq. Origenes Homil. VII
6 in Levit. p. 226, Selecta in Deut. p. 389: τὸ μὲν διχηλεῖν ἐπὶ τῆς ὁπλῆς τὴν πορείαν, καθ’ ἣν πρὸς πᾶν ὁτιοῦν ἐρχόμεθα τῶν ἀγαθῶν σπουδασμάτων, ἐμφάνειεν ἐμφαίνοι ἂν ?), ὁ δὲ μηρυκισμὸς τὸ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω ποιεῖν τῆς θεοπνεύστου γραφῆς τοὺς λόγους καὶ οἶον ἀναμασᾶσθαι καὶ καταλεπτύνειν ἐρεύναις τὰ κεκρυμμένα τῶν θεωρημάτων. cf. Contra Celsum VI
16 p. 642 et Aristeae Epistulam p. 40,9 sqq. Schmidt

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