Philo Judaeus, De Agricultura, ed. Paul Wendland, 88

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[88] ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι νῦν ὁ λόγος αὐτῷ περὶ δυνάμεως ἱππικῆς, ἣν συγκροτεῖσθαι πρὸς ἄρχοντος ἐπ’ ἀναιρέσει ¹ δυσμενῶν καὶ σωτηρίᾳ φίλων ἀναγκαῖον, ἀλλὰ περὶ τῆς κατὰ ψυχὴν ἀλόγου καὶ ἀμέτρου καὶ ἀπειθοῦς φορᾶς, ἣν ἐπιστομίζειν λυσιτελές, μή ποτε τὸν λαὸν αὐτῆς ἅπαντα εἰς Αἴγυπτον, τὴν τοῦ σώματος χώραν, ἀποστρέψῃ καὶ φιλήδονον καὶ φιλοπαθῆ μᾶλλον ἢ φιλάρετον καὶ φιλόθεον ἀνὰ κράτος p. 314 M. ἐργάσηται, ἐπειδὴ τὸν πλῆθος ἵππων παρ’ ἑαυτῷ κτώμενον
ἀνάγκη τὴν εἰς Αἴγυπτον, ὡς αὐτὸς ἔφη, βαδίζειν ὁδόν.

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.) — 88 focus

[88] But the question is not now about his force of cavalry, which it is necessary to collect around the rulers for the destruction of their enemies and the protection of their friends; but concerning the irrational, and immoderate, and unmanageable impetuosity of the soul, which it is desirable to check, lest it should turn all its people towards Egypt, the country of the body, and labour with all its might to render it devoted to pleasure and to the passions, rather than to the service of virtue and of God; since it follows inevitably that he who has acquired a body of cavalry for himself, must, as he said himself, proceed on the road which leads to Egypt.

Notes on the current edition

De agricultura

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1 καὶ ἐπιθυμίαις om. Η 3—11 παγκάλως—βασιλέως add. m. rec. in mg. H
5 ὃς ἄν] ὅσα Α
7 ἐπὶ σεαυτὸν ex LXX scripsi: ἐπ’ αὐτὸν codd., ἐφ’ αὑτὸν v
9 ἵππος Η οὐδὲ MG: οὐδ’ οὐ ΑΗ ἀποστρέψῃ MH: ἀποστρέψει AG εἰς H: om. ceteri
10 τὸν ἱπποτρόφον Α
11 Μωσῆν Η
13 ἀνυπερθέτου καὶ συντόνου τάχους scripsi: ἀνυπερθέτω καὶ συντόμῳ συντόνῳ coni. Mang.) τάχει codd. τάχει] τύχη Λ2
14 ἐπ’ ἐξόδου Α
16 εἰς ἅπαν M φθάνων L
17 εἴποιμ’ ἄν coni. Mang.
19 ὀνησιμώτερον Α2, ἀνυσιμώτατον conicio
20 οἴονται A
21 ἐπιδόντες MAG: ἐπιδιδόντες H τοὺς ἐναντίους βαστᾶ Η καθαίρωσι codd.
22 οὕτως Η λοχῆσαι Α στρατεύματα Η
23 ταξιάρχας Α τῶν πλειόνων H
24 εὕρηται Turn.: εὕρηνται codd. καὶ sccl. Mang.
25 ὀρθοῖς
χρησαμένοις A πολὺ τὴν ἐν Α

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