Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 56

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[56] οἱ δὲ αὐτοὶ καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν χώραν ἁπάντων ὄντες κτημάτων δεσπόται καὶ ὅσων ἐπικρατεῖν οἱ ἰδιῶται δοκοῦσι, μόνα ταῦτα ἔχειν νομίζονται, ἅπερ ἐπιτρόποις καὶ ἐπιμεληταῖς ἐγχειρίσαιεν, ἀφ’ ὧν καὶ τὰς ἐτησίους προσόδους ἐκλέγουσιν· εἰς ἃ πολλάκις ἀνέσεως καὶ
¹² εὐθυμίας ἕνεκα προσέρχονται τὸ βαρύτατον τῶν ἐν πολιτείᾳ καὶ βασιλείᾳ φροντίδων ἄχθος ἀποτιθέμενοι· καὶ καλεῖται μέντοι ταῦτα τὰ κτήματα αὐτοῖς βασιλικά.

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.) — 56 focus

[56] And again, though they are lords of all the possessions in their whole country, even of those which appear to belong to private individuals, they nevertheless are accounted owners only of those portions which they can entrust to superintendents and overseers, from whom they receive yearly revenues, which properties they often visit for the sake of relaxation and amusement, when they lay aside for a while the heaviest portion of the burden of the cares which arise to them in the administration of public affairs and in the government of their kingdoms; and these possessions are called especially the royal properties.

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De plantatione

1.
1 τὸ δὲ ἡτοιμάσθαι Η
2 ὑπολάβοι MGFHbr: ὑπολάβῃ Ua v
3 τὸ] τὸν MUF γεγονότων ἀναγκαίως ἐπεβόησε Μωυσπης λέγων· κύριος βασιλεύων E τὸν αἰῶνα MGUF: τῶν αἰώνων HE
4 καὶ ante ἔτι om. UF βασιλέα scripsi: βάσι M, βασιλεῖ GUF, βασιλεὺς H δεῖσθαι MGUF: δεῖται Η δὲ] δὲ δὴ V
5 κλῆρος M λέγεται U
6 καὶ ἔλαυσιν M
9 λόγῳ] λόφῳ coni. Mang. καταφύτευσον M: κατεφύτευσε FL2, καταφύτευε G2H2L1, κατεφύτευε G1UH1
14 ἀνηγεμόνευτον om. G παρά σου F
15 δὲ om. F
16 ἔχει G2H: ἔχοι MG1UFL κληροδοσίας MGF
17 μὲν γὰρ conicio
18 ὄντων
20 οἷς GFH: οἲ MU
21 ἐπιμέλειαν om. F
22 καίτοι τῶν coni. Mang.
24 νομίζονται H: νομίζοντες MGUF ἐγχειρίσαιεν Η: ἐγχειρήσαιεν M, ἐγχειρῆσαι G, ἐγχειρίσαι UF
25 ἐκλόγους εἰς M

2. 2—4 ἀλλ’ ὅπως—ἔτι habet E, II p. 608,36—40 M.

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