Philo Judaeus, De Ebrietate, ed. Paul Wendland, 22

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[22] ἰδεῖν μέντοι καὶ τοὺς ἐπαποδυομένους πολυοινίᾳ καὶ καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν γυμναζομένους καὶ ἀθλοῦντας τοὺς ἐπ’ ἀπληστίᾳ γαστρὸς ἄθλους ἔστι συμβολὰς μὲν ὡς ἐπί τινι τῶν λυσιτελῶν εἰσφέροντας, ζημιουμένους δὲ πάντα, χρήματα, σώματα, ψυχάς· τὰ μὲν γὰρ εἰσφέροντες μειοῦσι τὴν
οὐσίαν, τῶν δὲ σωμάτων διὰ τὸ ἁβροδίαιτον κατακλῶσι καὶ θρύπτουσι τὰς δυνάμεις, τὰς δὲ ψυχὰς ποταμοῦ χειμάρρου τρόπον ἀμετρίᾳ τροφῶν ἐπικλύζοντες εἰς βυθὸν ἀναγκάζουσι δύεσθαι.

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.) — 22 focus

[22] And we may see those who every day descend into the arena to contend in drinking much wine, and practising this quality every day, and striving to gain the victory in greediness and voracity, bringing their contributions as though they had some desirable object in view, and injuring themselves in every thing, in their property, and their bodies, and their souls; for by contributing their property they diminish their substance; and they break down and enervate the powers of their bodies by their luxurious way of life, and as for their souls, inundating them with immoderate food like a swollen torrent, they compel that to sink down to the lowest depth.

Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 22

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