Philo Judaeus De Agricultura 153

ed. Paul Wendland

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[153] καλόν γε τοίχων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, προσόδους ἐκλέγειν, ἑστιᾶσθαι, μεθύειν, θαλαμεύεσθαι, νυμφοστολεῖσθαι τὰς γεγηρακυίας καὶ σαπράς, τὸ λεγόμενον, ἀλλ’ εἰρήνης ἔργα, ἐν δ’ ἔτι
ἡβῶντός τε καὶ ἀνθοῦντος ἀκμῇ πολέμου πάντα δρᾶν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 153 focus

[153] It is a good thing, no doubt, to take care of one’s walls, to collect one’s revenues, to feast, to revel in wine, to contract marriages, to go courting the old and withered dames (as the proverb calls them); but these are the employments of peace, and to do all these things in the crisis of a war raging in all its freshness and vigour,

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