Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 133

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[133] καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μέντοι τὸν καρπὸν τοῦ πέμπτου ἡμῖν ἀνατίθησιν, ὅτι αἰσθήσεως πεντὰς ἀριθμὸς οἰκεῖος καί, εἰ δεῖ τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, τὸ τρέφον τὸν νοῦν ¹² ἡμῶν ἐστιν αἴσθησις, ἢ δι’ ὀφθαλμῶν τὰς χρωμάτων καὶ σχημάτων ποιότητας εὐτρεπίζουσα ἢ δι’ ὤτων παντοδαπὰς τὰς τῶν φωνῶν ἰδιότητας ἢ διὰ μυκτήρων ὀσμὰς ἢ χυλοὺς διὰ στόματος ἢ μαλακότητας εὐενδότους καὶ σκληρότητας ἀντιτύπους ἢ λειότητας καὶ τραχύτητας, ψυχρότητάς τε αὖ καὶ θερμότητας διὰ τῆς ἀνὰ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα σκιδναμένης

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 133 focus

[133] and on this account it assigns to us the fruit of the fifth year, because the number five is the number appropriate to the outward sense; and if one must tell the truth, that which nourishes our minds is the outward sense, which by means of our eyes sets before us the distinctive qualities of colours and forms, and by means of our ears presents us with all the various peculiarities of sounds, and with smells by means of the nose, and with tastes through the medium of the mouth, and which enables us to judge of the yielding softness and resisting hardness, or of softness and roughness, or again of heat and cold, by means of the faculty which is dispersed over the whole body, which we usually denominate touch.

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De plantatione

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1 ἀψευδέστατον FN
2 ἀκούσαντος M
3 ἀναφανεῖται L, ἀναφῆναι coni. Mang.
4 δὴ scripsi: δὲ codd. N αὐτῶν Η ἣν] τὴν U
5 καλοῦσι Η 5.
6 ὁ μὲν—λέγομεν om. N
7 θεῷ scripsi: θεὸν codd. N γενέσει scripsi: γένεσιν codd. N μηδὲ H
8 τούτου om. N πλεόντων M δυναμένη scripsi: δυναμένην FN, δυναμένων GHU, δύναμέν (sic!) M
9 εὑρήσεται Η, εὑρήσει conicio
10 φύσεως Η: om. MGUFN
11 ἓν ἔργον MG: ἐνεργὸν UFN, ἔργον ἓν ἐν Η
14 ποίημα Η 14.
15 ἑτέραν U
15 ἣ ’ ᾗ #x003E; τὸ λέγειν καὶ #x003E; conicio ἀεὶ δεῖν FN
16 γεραίρεται FN
17 αἰτιῶν M ἐπειδὴ M ἔτει H: ἔτι MGUF
19 αὑτοὶ σχήσομεν Cohn: αὐτοῖς χρήσομεν codd.
20 τὸν om. H 21. ἅπασιν H: ἁπάσαις MGUF
22 ἀντιλαμβανοίμεθα H: ἐπιλανθανοίμεθα MGUF καὶ vid. del. θαυμαστῶν G2
23 ἑ M πέμπτου #x003E; conicio ὅταν M
24 post οἰκεῖος add. εἴδους καὶ ἐν αἰσθήσει γένους πλεῖστον μετέχομεν MGUF

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16 cf. Platonis Timaeum p.
29 Α.

Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 133

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