Philo Judaeus, De Sobrietate, ed. Paul Wendland, 42

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[42]
πάλιν τοίνυν κατὰ τὰ ἐναντία μυρίους ἔστιν ἰδεῖν ἀνάνδρους, ἀκολάστους, ἄφρονας, ἀδίκους, ἀσεβεῖς ἐν ταῖς διανοίαις ὑπάρχοντας, τὸ δὲ κακίας ¹² ἑκάστης αἶσχος ἀδυνατοῦντας ἐπιδείκνυσθαι δι’ ἀκαιρίαν τῶν εἰς τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν καιρῶν, ἐπειδὰν δὲ τοῦ δύνασθαι πολλὴ καὶ μεγάλη κατασκήψῃ φορά, γῆν καὶ θάλατταν ἄχρι τερμάτων ἀμυθήτων ἀναπιμπλάντας κακῶν καὶ μηδέν, μὴ μικρὸν μὴ μέγα, ἀζήμιον ἐῶντας, ἀλλὰ ῥύμῃ μιᾷ ἀνατρέποντάς τε καὶ φθείροντας·

De Sobrietate. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Sobrietate (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On Sobriety First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 42 focus

[42] On the other hand again, one can see innumerable persons, unmanly, intemperate, foolish, unjust, impious in their minds, but unable fully to display the disgraceful character of all their vices by reason of the want of opportunity to sin; but if any important or frequent opportunities present themselves, then filling earth and sea to its extremest boundaries with unspeakable wickedness, and leaving nothing whether great or small uninjured, they overturn and destroy everything at one blow.

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De sobrietate

1.
1 τῷ] τὸ H
4 τὶς H οἱ ante ἔπαινοι om. H παρακολουθῶσιν G
6 οἱ δ’ ἄνευ τοῦ τι Turn. : οἱ δ’ ἄνευ τι τοῦ G2HL1 (οἷς δ’ ἄν ἐστι s. s. L-), οἱ δ’ ἄν ἐστι τοῦ G’, οἶς δ’ ἄν ἐᾶι τὸF
8 ἐφαρμότπιν G
9 prius τε FN: δὲ GH alterum τε om. F
12 διακονίαις L-
14 περιπολοῦσι H: περιπνοῦσι G, περιπνέουσι FN δεδεμένας; F
15 ἠτήσαντο N τἀγαθά N
17 προστασιαν scripsi: -sptoustav codd. N, ἐπιστασίαν coni. Mang., παρουσίαν Cohn
18 σύνεστι F ἐπιδείξεται GF
20 συνότων coni. Mang., παρουσίαν conicio Η:
21 ἀκωλύτων GFN εὐσεβείας Mang.: εὐσέβειαν codd. N
22 ἱερῶν Η : ἥ ἱερἐων GFN ἀριστείας Ν ἅνεν δὲ τούτων H : τε ἅν ἐν τούτων G, τε ἀνένδοτον τούτων FN
24 εἰςοὐδὲν coni. Mang.
26 ὑπερμάοντας H

2. 8—22 Ν fol. 187v : ὁ αὐτὸς — τούτων.

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