Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 119

ed. Paul Wendland

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[119] 31 εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἐν μέρει δωρεαί, ἃς θεῷ τε 376 M. δοῦναι καὶ λαβεῖν ἀνθρώποις ἐμπρεπές.
αὗται δ’ ἂν εἶεν ἀρεταὶ καὶ αἱ κατ’ αὐτὰς ἐνέργειαι, ὧν τὴν εὕρεσιν σχεδὸν ἄχρονον οὖσαν διὰ τὸ ὑπερβάλλον τοῦ χαριζομένου τάχος ἐν οἷς εἴωθε δωρεῖσθαι πᾶς καταπέπληκται, καὶ ὅτῳ μηδὲν μέγα τῶν ἄλλων ὑπείληπται.

De Ebrietate. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Ebrietate (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On Drunkenness First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 119 focus

There are also particular gifts which it is suitable both to God to give, and to men to receive. And these must be the virtues and the energies in accordance with them, at the discovery of which, being almost without any connexion with time, by reason of the surpassing rapidity of the giver which he is accustomed to exhibit in his gifts, every one is full of admiration, even those to whom nothing else in the world appears great.

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