Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 15

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[15] καθάπερ γὰρ γυναικὶ καὶ παντὶ τῷ θήλει πηγαὶ πρὸς τῷ μέλλειν ἀποκυΐσκειν ἀναχέονται γάλακτος, ἵνα τοῖς γεννωμένοις ἄρδωσι τὰς ἀναγκαίας καὶ ἁρμοττούσας τροφάς, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τῇ χερσαίων ζῴων μητρὶ γῇ πάσας φυτῶν προσένειμεν
ἰδέας, ἵνα συγγενέσι καὶ μὴ ὀθνείοις τροφαῖς τὰ γεννώμενα ¹² χρήσηται.

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.) — 15 focus

[15] For, as in the case of woman and every animal of the female sex, fountains of milk spring up in them when they are about to bring forth, in order that they may supply the offspring that is born of them with necessary and suitable food; so in a similar manner God has assigned to the earth, which is the mother of all terrestrial animals, all the different species of plants, in order that the animals produced by the earth may have such food as is akin to them, and not alien from their natures.

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De plantatione

1.
1 καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες Μang.: τοὺς ἀστέρας ἐν codd., τοὺς ἀστέρας δὲ ἐν E, καὶ τῶν ἀστέρων ἐν Turn.
1 ἡ ζῷα—ἀμέτοχα om. E
1 γὰρ] δὲ M τούτους] ταῦτα G
2 ὧν addidi πλανῆται U ἑαυτῶν κινούμενοι conicio
5 δὲ E: codd. γῆ καὶ ὕδατι καὶ E
6 μὲν] μὲν γὰρ conicio καὶ post om. Turu. καὶ αἰσθητὰ om. E
8 οὐ ταῖς Turn.: οὔσαις codd. E τάξεσιν U
11 τῆς τῆς E πρὸς] καὶ M
13 καλεῖν M post καλοῦσι add. καὶ δαίμονας E εὐθυβόλῳ χρώμενος ὀνόματι E
14 διαγγελούσας MGU παρὰ] περὶ M
15 ὧν] ὧ L οἱ ὑπήκοοι Ma: ὑπήκοοι ceteri
16 τε] τε καὶ M δύο γένη conicio
17 μητέρα τε scripsi: τε μητέρα γὰρ GH: καὶ MUF
18 πρὸς] ἀπὸ M πρὸ τοῦ μέλλειν conicio τῶ codd.: τὸ Turn. ἀναχέονται scripsi; ἀποχέονται codd.
20 καὶ post χερσαίων add. M
21 ὀθνείαις GF

2. 14.
15 cf. ad p. 45,2 16—137,
1 sic partim amplificavit partim contraxit E II p. 605,
26 Mang.: ὕδατι δὲ ζῷα πλωτὰ καὶ ζωόφυτα, τῇ γῆ δ’ αὖ ζῷά τε χερσαῖα καὶ φυτά, καὶ τὰ μὲν φυτὰ κατωκάρα, pergit usque ad p. 137,17 γεγονότων (II 606,9 M)

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