Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 76

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[76] ἔστι δὲ ὅρος οὗτος τῶν ἀπὸ μονάδος παραυξηθέντων ὁ μέγιστος καὶ τελειότατος, ὥστε ἀρχὴν μὲν ἀριθμῶν εἶναι μονάδα, τέλος δὲ ἐν τοῖς κατὰ
τὴν πρώτην σύνθεσιν μυριάδα. παρὸ καί τινες οὐκ ἀπὸ σκοποῦ βαλβῖδι μὲν μονάδα, καμπτῆρι δὲ εἴκασαν μυριάδα, τοὺς δὲ μεθορίους πάντας ¹ ἀριθμοὺς τοῖς δρόμον ἀγωνιζομένοις· ἀρχόμενοι γὰρ ὥσπερ ἀπὸ βαλβῖδος φέρεσθαι μονάδος παρὰ μυριάδα τὸ τέλος ἵστανται.

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.) — 76 focus

[76] and this is the greatest limit of those numbers which increase from the unit, and also the most perfect: so that the limit is the beginning of numbers, and the end, in ¹ those calculations, according to the first combination, is the number ten thousand; in reference to which fact, some persons have not erred greatly, who have compared the limit to the starting-place, and the number ten thousand to the goal, and all the numbers between these two to those who contend in a race; for they, beginning to start from the unit, as from the starting place, come to the number ten thousand as to the goal.

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De plantatione

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1 ἥκετε Η: ἱκέται MGUF ὠθῇ M
2 κτήματα τῶν scripsi: κτημάτων MF, κτήματα GUH σοφὸν M
3 ἐνοήσατε M
4 τεχνητὴ M
5 ὀφε M
6 κλῆρον μὴ Η: κληρονομεῖν M, κληρονομεῖ GUF τούτοις ἐμφερὲς Η2: τοῖς ἐμφερεστέροις ceteri ἀκούετε UH: ἀκούεται GF, ἀκούετο M
7 μεγίστων Mang.: μέγιστον codd.
8 ante ἀξιοῦσιν ras.
2 litt. Η ἀγαθὸν U
1 1 Ἁβραὰμ FH
13 θεὸς αἰώνιος Mang.: θεοῦ αἰωνίου codd. ἰδιώτης M
15 θεοῦ ὅσα ἐν κτήμασιν corrupta
18 ῥιζωθεῖσιν coni. Mang.
19 κύριος conicio
20 προταθέντων codd.: προτεθέντων v
21 πὼς ἀποδοῦναι GF, ἀποδοῦναι M μήκει
51 GF; μήκους UH
22 πλάτει Mang.: πλάτους codd.
26 παρ’ ὃ GU

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