Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 177

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[177] φήσει δή τις ἐναντιούμενος, ὅτι κατὰ τὸν λεχθέντα λόγον ὁ σοφὸς οὔτε μελαγχολήσει ποτὲ
οὔτε κοιμηθήσεται οὔτε συνόλως ἀποθανεῖται· ᾧ δὲ μὴ συμβαίνει τι τοιοῦτον, ἄψυχόν ἐστιν ἢ θεῖον, ἄνθρωπος δὲ οὐκ ἂν εἴη τὸ παράπαν. τὴν γὰρ ἀγωγὴν τοῦ λόγου μιμησάμενος ἐφαρμόσει τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον τῷ μελαγχολῶντι ἢ κοιμωμένῳ ἢ ἀποθνῄσκοντι· οὐκ ἄν τις εὐλόγως λόγον ἀπόρρητον τῷ τοιούτῳ παρακατάθοιτο, τῷ δὲ σοφῷ εὐλόγως·
οὔτ’ ἄρα μελαγχολᾷ οὔτε κοιμᾶται οὔτε ἀποθνῄσκει ὁ σοφός.

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.) — 177 focus

[177] Some one then will say in opposition that, according to the argument that has been advanced, the wise man must never have a bilious attack, and never go to sleep, and above all must never die. But he to whom some of these things happens is either an inanimate being or a divine one; but beyond all question he is not a man at all. Imitating this perversion of the arguments, one may apply it equally to a bilious man, or to a sleeping man, or to a dying man; for no one in his senses would tell a secret to a man in any of these conditions, but it would be reasonable for him to tell it to a wise man, for the wise man is never bilious, never goes to sleep, and never dies.

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De plantatione

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1 οὑδὲ H2 παρατρέψαντες M παρὰ om. G
3 ἀνωμολογεῖσθαι MG σπάσαι MFL2: πᾶσαι U, σπεῦσαι HL1, σπᾶσθαι G (sed σπᾶ in ras.)
4 σοφόν FH: σοφῶν MGU οὐ] οἱ G1
5 αὑτὸ G1, αὐτὸ M
6 νικῶν, οὐδέ ἀγωνίζεται τὸ παράπαν,, σκιομαχεῖν δὲ μᾶλλον Arnim; sed ad εἰ δὲ ἀγωνίζοιτο ἀγωνίζοιτο conicio) subaudi καθ’ αὑτόν σκιαμαχεῖν scripsi: σκιομαχεῖν codd.
7 τοὺς τὸ MG1FH: τούς τὸν G2, τοῦτο U λόγον G
8 γεννηθῇ F μηδετέρου U: μηδ’ ἑτέρου F, μηδὲ ἑτέρου MGH
9 ἀδυνατώτατος Η εἰ] ἐν M1, ut Vid. 10.
11 τῷ—παρακατατίθεται addidi (cf. Arnim p. 136)
11 ἀλλ’ οὖν scripsi: ἀρ’ οὖν codd., ἀρ’ #x003E; οὑν coni. Cohn
13 πλέον Cohn: πλεῖον codd. δὴ] δέ M
15 συμβαίνῃ G
16 ἀνθρώπου L
17 γὰρ ἀγωγὴν Arnim: παραγωγὴν codd.
18 post τις add. γάρ GUFH
20 οὔτ’ ἄρα scripsi: οὐ γὰρ codd., οὐκ ἄρα Mang. subscriptio GU: φίλωνος περὶ φυτουργίας Νῶε

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