Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 147

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[147] οὐδὲ γὰρ θανάσιμον φάρμακον προσενέγκαιτο ἄν, εἰ μὴ πάνυ βιάζοιντο οἱ καιροὶ καθάπερ ἐκ πατρίδος μετανίστασθαι τοῦ βίου· φάρμακον δέ, εἰ καὶ οὐ θανάτου, μανίας γοῦν ἄκρατον εἶναι αἴτιον
¹ συμβέβηκε. διὰ τί δ’ οὐχὶ καὶ μανίαν λεκτέον θάνατον, ᾧ τὸ κράτιστον ἀποθνῄσκει τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν, ὁ νοῦς; ἀλλά μοι δοκεῖ τις ἂν εἰκότως τὸν διακρίνοντα καὶ διαλύοντα ψυχήν τε καὶ σῶμα ὡς κουφότερον ἀντὶ βαρυτέρου τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἔκστασιν, εἴ τις ἦν αἵρεσις, ἀνενδοιάστως ἑλέσθαι.

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.) — 147 focus

[147] For he would not take a deadly poison unless the occasion compelled him very strongly to depart from life, as it might urge him to depart from his country. And at all events it is plain, that unmixed wine is a poison, which is the cause, if not of death, at least of madness, and why may we not pronounce madness to be death, since by it the most important thing in us dies, namely, the mind? But it appears to me that a man would without the slightest hesitation choose (if a choice was permitted him), that death which separates and disunites the soul and the body as a lesser evil in preference to that greater one—the alienation of the mind.

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De plantatione

1.
1 ἀπεφήνατο Η
3 ἐπὰν M τὴν ψυχὴν scripsi : τῆ ψυχὴ codd. 3.
4 προβεβλῆσθαι conicio
4 σβεστήριον G2FH: σεβαστήριον MG1U εἶτα M
5 οἴστρων scripsi: οἴστρῳ codd. ἀνερριπισμένων Η: ἀνερριπισμένω MGUF εἶτα M ἐξημμένων H: ἐξημμένῳ MGUF
6 δι’ ἧς coni. Mang. τῶν] τῶ M βαθέως M
7 δυομένῳ M ναυτίλεσθαι H
9 τὴν H: τὶν μὲν MGUF ποτὲ F μὲν om. G
10 βυθὸν] κακὸν U κατέρριψεν U
11 οἱ δὲ] οὐδὲ M
12 περὶ] ὑπὲρ coni. Arnim περιβολῆς H οἶμαι τοῦ FH: spat.
1 —
2 litt., tum τοῦ M, ὁμετοῦ GU
13 τὴν γῆν H 14.
15 οὐδ’ ὁρῶντες scripsi: οἱ δὲ ὁρῶντες Η, ἱδρῶντες Γ’. ἱδρῶτες MGF, ἡ οὐδ’ ὁρῶντες Wilamowitz, οἲ οὐδ’ ὁρῶντες Arnim
15 εἰς ὕψος Η: εἰσὶ τὸ MF, εἰσὶν τὸ U, εἰσι ιν G (iv G2 in ras.)
16 ἑαυτὸς GF γενάμενος G
18 περιβαλὼν M
19 κατασυρεὶς U: καταρρυεὶς F, καταρεὶς G, καρωθεὶς M, παρασυρεὶς H ἀναπεσεῖται codd.: πεσεῖται v
21 σωτήρια G in ras., spat.
5 litt. M τιμῆς GUF
23 οὐδὲ MGUF: οὐ H
25 αἴτιον ἄκρατον εἶναι conicio

Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 147

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