Philo Judaeus, De Agricultura, ed. Paul Wendland, 25

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[25] καὶ γὰρ γῆν μεταλλεύουσι καὶ τὰ πελάγη διαβαίνουσι
καὶ τἄλλα πάντα ὅσα εἰρήνης καὶ πολέμου ἔργα δρῶσιν, ὕλας ἀφθόνους ὡς βασιλίδι ἡδονῇ πορίζοντες, οἱ γεωργίας μὲν ἀμύητοι ψυχικῆς, ἣ σπείρουσα καὶ φυτεύουσα τὰς ἀρετὰς καρπὸν δρέπεται τὸν εὐδαίμονα βίον ἀπ’ αὐτῶν, ἐργασάμενοι δὲ καὶ μεθοδεύοντες τὰ φίλα τῇ σαρκὶ καὶ τὸν σύνθετον χοῦν, τὸν πεπλασμένον ἀνδριάντα, τὸν ψυχῆς ἔγγιστα
οἶκον, ὃν ἀπὸ γενέσεως ἄχρι τελευτῆς, ἄχθος τοσοῦτον, οὐκ ἀποτίθεται νεκροφοροῦσα, μετὰ σπουδῆς τῆς πάσης οἰκειούμενοι.

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.) — 25 focus

[25] For they dig mines in the earth, and they sail across the seas, and they achieve every other work both of peace and war, providing unbounded materials for pleasure, as for their queen, being utterly uninitiated in that husbandry of the soul which sows and plants the virtues and reaps their fruit, which is a happy life. But they labouring to procure, and reducing to a system those things which are pleasant to the flesh, cultivate with all imaginable care that composite mass, that carefully fashioned statue, the narrow house of the soul, which, from its birth to its death it can never lay aside, but which it is compelled to bear till the day of its death, burdensome as it is.

Philo Judaeus De Agricultura 25

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