Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 12

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[12] τὰ μὲν οὖν μεταβατικῇ κινήσει χρώμενα, ἃ δή φαμεν ἡμεῖς ζῷα εἶναι, ταῖς τοῦ παντὸς ὁλοσχερεστέραις προσεγένετο μοίραις, γῇ μὲν τὰ χερσαῖα, πλωτὰ δὲ ὕδατι, τὰ δὲ πτηνὰ ἀέρι καὶ τὰ πυρίγονα
πυρί, ὧν τὴν γένεσιν ἀριδηλοτέραν κατὰ Μακεδονίαν λόγος ἔχει ¹² προφαίνεσθαι, καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες οὐρανῷ—ζῷα γὰρ καὶ τούτους νοερὰ δι’ ὅλων φασὶν οἱ φιλοσοφήσαντες —, ὧν οἱ μὲν πλάνητες ἐξ ἑαυτῶν, οἱ δ’ ἀπλανεῖς τῇ τοῦ παντὸς συμπεριαγόμενοι φορᾷ τόπους ἐναλλάττειν δοκοῦσι.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Plantatione (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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About the Planting of Noah First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 12 focus

[12] Those then that are affected by motion, inducing change of place, which we call animals, are attached to the most important portions of the universe; the terrestrial animals to the earth, the animals which swim to the water, the winged animals to the air and those which can live in the flame to the fire (which last are said to be most evidently produced in Macedonia), and the stars are attached to the heaven. For those who have studied philosophy pronounce the stars also to be animals, being endowed with intellect and pervading the whole universe; some being planets, and moving by their own intrinsic nature; and others, that is the fixed stars, being borne along with the revolutions of the universe; so that they likewise appear to change their places.

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De plantatione

1.
1 δυσωπείας F; δυστροπίας Eus (sed δυσωπίας cod. I)
2 τῶν ἐνύλων Eus codd. plerique ἐν oin. Uar
3 ἀχθηφορεῖν Ε λόγος Eus: νόμος codd. E 3.
4 ὁχυρότατον G
4 ἐστί M
5 ἐπὶ] ἐστὶ Γ’ τὸν] τὸ F 5. G τὸν φύσεως Eus
6 ἀήττητον δρόμον Eus ἀήττητος conicio συσφίγγων Eus codd. nonnulli πάντα τὰ μέρη Ε συνάγων] συνέχων coni. Mang.
7 αὐτῶν U, om. Ε ἄρρητον Eus codd. nonnuUi 8.
9 ter οὔτε conicio
8 πρὸς] καὶ G παντὸς om. E
9 οὐδὲ MGF ὑπ’ Ε, ἀπὸ M
10 λόγου Eus: νόμου codd.
11 αὑτὸν Eus H2: αὐτὸν ceteri καθάπερ om. Eus 11—13 καθάπερ—διαιτῶντες om.
11 φωνάεντα G, φωνῆεν Eus, φωνῆέν τι conicio στοιχεῖα U
12 ἐγγράμμου Eus φωνῆς Mang.: μούσης codd., μουσικῆς Eus
13 συναγωγῷ scripsi: συνόδω codd. Eus
14 οὕτως MGF: οὕτω UH, οὔπω E ἐριζοῦτο U, ἐκραταιοῦτο coni. Mang.
16 ἀνεστῶτα G1, ἐνεστῶτα M
18 προσενέμετο conicio
19 τῶ ὕδατι UE πτηνὰ δὲ E καὶ τὰ GUFH: τὰ δὲ M 19—136,
1 καὶ τὰ—προφαίνεσθαι οm. E
20 κατὰ Μακεδονίαν om. M

2. 1—13 Euseb. Pr. ev. VII
13 καὶ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ δὲ πάλιν ὁ αὐτὸς τάδε γράφει πρὸς Τὰς δυστροπίας—διαιτῶντος.

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