Philo Judaeus, De Ebrietate, ed. Paul Wendland, 70

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[70] διὰ τοῦτο καὶ „ἀδελφόν“, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸ ψυχῆς ἀδελφὸν σῶμα ἀποκτενοῦμεν, τουτέστι τοῦ φιλαρέτου καὶ θείου τὸ φιλοπαθὲς καὶ θνητὸν διαζεύξομεν. ἀποκτενοῦμεν καὶ τὸν „πλησίον“, πάλιν οὐκ ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν αἰσθήσεων χορὸν καὶ θίασον·
οὗτος γὰρ ψυχῆς ἐστιν ὁμοῦ καὶ οἰκεῖος καὶ δυσμενής, δελέατα καὶ παγίδας ἐπ’ αὐτῇ τιθείς, ἵνα τοῖς ἐπιρρέουσιν αἰσθητοῖς κατακλυζομένη ¹ μηδέποτε πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἀνακύψῃ μηδὲ τὰς νοητὰς καὶ θεοειδεῖς φύσεις ἀσπάσηται. ἀποκτενοῦμεν καὶ „τὸν ἔγγιστα“· ὁ δ’ ἐγγυτάτω διανοίας ὁ κατὰ προφοράν ἐστι λόγος, εὐλόγοις καὶ εἰκόσι καὶ πιθανότησι δόξας ψευδεῖς ἐντιθεὶς ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ τοῦ κρατίστου κτήματος, ἀληθείας.

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.) — 70 focus

[70] On this account it is, that we shall slay a brother, not a man, but the body, which is brother to the soul; that is to say, we shall separate that which is devoted to the passions and mortal, from that which is devoted to virtue and divine. And, again, we shall slay a neighbour, not a man, but a company and a band; for such a company is, at the same time, akin to, and hostile to, the soul, laying baits and spreading snares for it, in order that being inundated by the objects of the outward senses, which overflow it, it may never emerge and look up to heaven, so as to embrace the beautiful and God-like natures. And we shall also slay those nearest to us: but that which is nearest to the mind is uttered speech, inserting false opinions among reasonable and natural plausibilities and probabilities, to the destruction of that best of all possessions, truth.

Notes on the current edition

De ebrietate

1. 1.
2 εὕραντο—ταῖς om G
1 εὕροντο H
2 τοῖς om. H φαντασίας H ἀπατωμέναις Η
6 μηδὲν Η ἅγους GU 6.
7 προσαψαμένου H
7 ἄπαγε] ἅπας Η
9 αὑτοῦ bis U, bis om. L οἱ GF: om. UH
10 ἐλάλησε] προσέταξε U Μώσης Η
12 πλὴν U 12—185,25 hinc translata inseruit F fol. 354ν in libri Quod deus sit immutabilis § 67 ῥίζαις, ibidem in folio postmodum interposito babet L, cf. Prolegomena vol. I p. XXIV. XXV
12 ἕκαστος ante σήμερον trauspos. v
19 φίλτατα σαρκὶ H αὐτῶν II
20 νόμου L γενησομένους ’-Ii, γενομένου H (ου in ras.) 23.
24 τοῦ φιλαρέτου καὶ θείου Turn.: τῶ φιλαρέτῳ καὶ θείω codd.
24 διαζεύξωμεν L
25 ante ἀλλὰ ex lin.
23 ἀλλὰ τὸ ψυχῆς ἀδελφὸν inserit Η αἰσθήσεων addidi χορὸν αἰσθήσεων. οὗτος coni. Mang.
26 prius καὶ V: om. GFII tertium καὶ] τε καὶ U
27 αὐτὸ v

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