Philo Judaeus De Sobrietate 46

ed. Paul Wendland

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[46] ὃς Ἑβραίων γλώττῃ Χαναὰν καλεῖται. νομοθετῶν
δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐπιτίμιον ὁρίζει κατὰ ἀδίκων ἠρεμούντων, ἀλλὰ δὴ κινουμένων καὶ τοῖς κατὰ ἀδικίαν ἔργοις χρωμένων, καθάπερ οὐδὲ τῶν δακετῶν οὐδὲν ἀνὴρ μέτριος κτείνειν ἂν ἐθελήσαι μὴ μέλλον δάκνειν· λόγῳ γὰρ ὑπεξαιρετέον ψυχῆς ὠμότητα φύσει [καὶ] κατὰ πάντων φονῶσαν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 46 focus

[46] But no lawgiver ever affixes a punishment to wicked men while in a state of inaction, but only when they are in a state of motion and practise actions in accordance with injustice, just as a moderate man would not care about killing a snake if it were not about to bite him. For we must leave out of the question, that natural cruelty of soul which in the case of some persons delights to deal destruction upon everything.

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