Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 4

ed. Paul Wendland

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[4] τάδε· 2 σύμβολον τὸν ἄκρατον Μωυσῆς οὐχ ἑνὸς ἀλλὰ πλειόνων εἶναι νομίζει, τοῦ ληρεῖν καὶ παραπαίειν, ἀναισθησίας παντελοῦς, ἀπληστίας ἀκορέστου καὶ δυσαρέστου ἐπιθυμίας καὶ εὐφροσύνης τῆς τἄλλα περιεχούσης καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐμφαινομένης γυμνότητος, ᾗ τὸν
Νῶε p. 358 μεθυσθέντα φησὶ χρήσασθαι. τὸν μὲν οὖν οἶνον λέγεται ταῦτα ἐργάζεσθαι. μυρίοι δὲ καὶ τῶν οὐ προσαψαμένων ἀκράτου νήφειν ὑπολαμβάνοντες τοῖς ὁμοίοις ἁλίσκονται·

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.) — 4 focus

Moses looks upon an unmixed wine as a symbol not of one thing only but of many, namely of trifling, and playing the fool, and of all kinds of insensibility and of insatiable greediness, and of a covetousness which is hard to be pleased, and of a cheerfulness which comprehends many other objects, and of a nakedness which is apparent in all the things now mentioned, such as that which he says Noah, when drunk, displayed himself in. Wine, then, is said to produce all these effects.

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