Philo Judaeus, De Agricultura, ed. Paul Wendland, 34

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[34] τοῦτον δὴ τὸν τρόπον καὶ τὰ τῶν αἰσθήσεων θρέμματα, ἐπειδὰν ὁ νοῦς ὑπτίως καὶ ῥᾳθύμως ἔχῃ, τῆς τῶν αἰσθητῶν
ἀπλήστως ἐμφορούμενα ἀφθονίας ἀπαυχενίζει τε καὶ σκιρτᾷ καὶ πλημμελῶς ὅπῃ τύχοι φέρεται, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ πρὸς πάντα ἀναπεπταμένοι τὰ ὁρατά, καὶ ἃ μὴ θέμις ὁρᾶν, ἐξώκειλαν, καὶ ἀκοαὶ πάσας φωνὰς παραδεχόμεναι καὶ μηδέποτε πληρούμεναι, διψῶσαι δὲ ἀεὶ περιεργίας καὶ φιλοπραγμοσύνης, ἔστι δὲ ὅπου καὶ ἀνελευθέρου χλεύης
ἐκπεφοιτήκασιν.

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.) — 34 focus

[34] In this manner, also, the offspring of the outward senses, when the mind is supine and indolent, being satiated in the most unbounded degree with a superfluity of the pleasures of the outward senses, toss their heads, and frisk about, and rove about, at random, wherever they please; the eyes being opened wide to embrace every object of sight, and hastening even to feast themselves on objects which ought not to be looked at; and the ears eagerly receiving every kind of voice, and never being satisfied, but always thirsting for superfluity and the indulgence of vain curiosity and sometimes even for such delights as are but little suited to a free man.

Philo Judaeus De Agricultura 34

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