Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 148

ed. Paul Wendland

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[148]
διὰ τοῦτο μέντοι καὶ τὸν εὑρετὴν τῆς περὶ τὸν οἶνον ἐργασίας μαινόλην ἐκάλεσαν οἱ πρῶτοι καὶ τὰς ἐξ αὐτοῦ κατασχέτους γενομένας βάκχας μαινάδας, ἐπεὶ μανίας καὶ παραφροσύνης αἴτιος τοῖς ἀπλήστως ἐμφορουμένοις ὁ οἶνος.

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.) — 148 focus

[148] On this account, forsooth, men of old time called skill in the art of making wine madness ( μαινομένη), and called the Bacchae who were carried away under the influence of wine, mad women ( Μαινάδες), since wine is the cause of madness and folly to those who indulge in it insatiably.

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