Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 50

ed. Paul Wendland

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[50] ὁ δ’ ἀντισοφίζεται βουλόμενος τὴν πρεσβυτέραν ἡμᾶς ἀγαγέσθαι προτέραν, οὐχ ἵνα βεβαίως ἔχωμεν, ἀλλ’ ἵνα τοῖς τῆς νεωτέρας φίλτροις δελεασθέντες αὖθις
τὸν ἐπ’ ἐκείνῃ πόθον ἐκλύσωμεν.

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.) — 50 focus

[50] But he acts cunningly in opposition to these principles, wishing us to take to ourselves the elder sister first, not in order that we may have her in a lasting manner, but that being attracted ¹ by the allurements of the younger, we may hereafter relax in our desire for the elder one.

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