Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 168

ed. Paul Wendland

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[168] οὐδὲ γὰρ εἰ δᾳδουχοῦσα παιδεία παραπέμποι τὸν νοῦν φῶς ἁψαμένη τὸ οἰκεῖον ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ὄντων θέαν, ὀνῆσαι δύναιτ’ ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ βλάψαι·
τὸ γὰρ βραχὺ φέγγος ὑπὸ πολλοῦ σκότους σβέννυσθαι πέφυκε, σβεσθέντος δὲ ἀνωφελὴς πᾶσα ὄψις.

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.) — 168 focus

[168] For even if education, holding a torch to the mind, conducts it on his way, kindling its own peculiar light, it would still, with reference to the perception of existing things, do harm rather than good; for a slight light is naturally liable to be extinguished by dense darkness, and when the light is extinguished all power of seeing is useless.

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