Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 7

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[7] ἀνάγκη τοίνυν ἐκτὸς ἢ κενὸν ἢ μηδὲν εἶναι. εἰ μὲν δὴ κενόν, πῶς τὸ πλῆρες καὶ ναστὸν καὶ τῶν ὄντων βαρύτατον οὐ βρίθει ταλαντεῦον στερεοῦ μηδενὸς ἐπερείδοντος; ἐξ οὗ φάσματι ἂν ἐοικέναι δόξαι, ζητούσης ἀεὶ τῆς διανοίας
βάσιν σωματικήν, ἣν πᾶν ἔχειν εἰκός, ἐάν τι κινούμενον τυγχάνῃ, τὸν δὲ δὴ κόσμον καὶ διαφερόντως, ὅτι τὸ μέγιστον σωμάτων ἐστὶ καὶ πλῆθος ἄλλων σωμάτων ὡς οἰκεῖα ἐγκεκόλπισται μέρη. ¹ τὰς δυσωπίας οὖν εἴ τις ἀποδιδράσκειν βούλοιτο τὰς ἐν τοῖς διαπορηθεῖσι,

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.) — 7 focus

[7] It follows therefore of necessity, that what is outside must either be a vacuum or nothing at all. If now it is a vacuum, than how can that which is full and solid, and the heaviest of all things, avoid being pressed down by its own weight, since there is no solid thing to hold it up? from which consideration it would appear to be something like a vision, since the mind is always seeking for some corporeal foundation, such as everything which is moved, must of necessity have: and especially the world, inasmuch as it is the greatest of all bodies, and embraces a multitude of other bodies as its own appropriate parts.

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De plantatione

1.
1 ὀχυροῦτο M
2 αὐτῶ U ὁ οὐρανὸς UF καὶ addidi 2—7 ὀχεῖσθαι—ἀέρι om. Ε
3 δέος Mang.: δέον MGFH, δὲ alterum ὕδατι] ἔλατι M, ὑγρότητι conicio 4.
5 θαυμαστοποιὸς H
6 τῶν ψυχροτάτων H
7 ἱδρῦσθαι scripsi: ἱδρύσασθαι eodd.
8 οὗ MFHE: οὐ U, om. G
10 οὑν secludit Cohn καθῆκεν U
11 ἐρήρισται MG οὖν GH2: om. MUFH1E
12 πᾶσαν om. E
13 διακοσμήσαντος] οἰκονομήσαντος L
15 δ’ D 15.
16 ὥστε εἰ τῆς ἁπάσης ὕλης μηδὲν ἔξω μηδὲ τῆς βραχυτάτης καταλειφθείσης E
15 ἐκ] εἰ GFE 15.
16 ἐκ γῆς ἀπάσης] spat. 8—9 litt. M
16 μηδέ om. G
17 ὅδ’ τοίνυν] λοιπὸν b
18 bis καινὸν G πῶς] πρὸς G τὸ πλῆρες H: τὸν πλήρης M, τὸν πλήρη GUFE
19 τῶν corr. in τὸν G οὐ βρίθει] ὑβρίσθη U, εὑρέθη E ταλαντεύων M 19.
20 ὑπερείδοντος conicio
20 ἔξω; ὃ φάσματι conicio φασματίαν F
21 ἣν add. in appendice Turn. πᾶν] ποίαν Η τι Turn.: τε codd., γε Ε (probat Cohn)
22 δὲ] τε G
23 ἄλλων om. M ἐγκαλλώπισται MG, ἐγκεκολωπίσθαι F

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