Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 156

ed. Paul Wendland

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[156] κἂν γὰρ αἱ τοῦ ἄλλου σώματος ἅπασαι δυνάμεις ἐπ’ αὐτὸ δὴ τὸ πέρας ἰσχύος ἔλθωσι καὶ ῥώμης, ὑποσκελισθεῖσαι πρὸς ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ ὤτων πηρώσεως
μέγα πτῶμα πίπτουσιν, ὡς μηκέτ’ ἀναστῆναι δύνασθαι· τὰ γὰρ ὑπερείδοντα καὶ στηρίζοντα ἄνθρωπον λόγῳ μὲν αἱ βάσεις εἰσίν, ἔργῳ δὲ ἀκοαί τε καὶ ὄψεις, ἃς ἔχων μέν τις ὁλοκλήρους ἐγήγερται καὶ ἀνωρθίασται, στερόμενος δὲ αὐτῶν κλίνεται καὶ εἰσάπαν καθαιρεῖται.

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.) — 156 focus

[156] For even if all the other faculties of the rest of the body, should attain to the very extreme limit of strength and vigour, still, if they are tripped up, as it were, and deprived of their foundation by the deprivation of the eyes and ears, they will meet with a great fall, so as never again to be able to rise; for the things which support man and keep him erect are in name, indeed, the feet, but in reality the powers of hearing and seeing; and the man who possesses them in their complete integrity is awake and stands upright, but he who is deprived of them falls and will be utterly destroyed.

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