Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 100

ed. Paul Wendland

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[100] καὶ γὰρ μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἡλίου καὶ νύκτωρ σελήνης φαντασίαν ὡς ἑστώτων οἱ σώματος ὀφθαλμοὶ λαμβάνουσι· καίτοι τίς οὐκ οἶδεν, ὅτι τὸ τῆς περὶ αὐτοὺς φορᾶς τάχος ἀνανταγώνιστόν ἐστιν, εἴ γε τὸν σύμπαντα οὐρανὸν μιᾷ περιπολοῦσιν ἡμέρᾳ; οὕτως
μέντοι καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ σύμπας οὐρανὸς ἑστάναι δοκῶν περιδινεῖται κύκλῳ, τῆς κινήσεως τῷ ἀειδεῖ καὶ θειοτέρῳ καταλαμβανομένης τῷ κατὰ

De Confusione Linguarum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Confusion of Languages First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 100 focus

[100] For the eyes of our body look upon the appearance of the sun by day and of the moon by night as standing still, and yet who is there who does not know that the rapidity of movements of these two bodies is incomparable, since they go round the whole heaven in one day? Thus, indeed, the universal heaven itself also, while appearing to stand still, revolves in a circle; its movement being detected and comprehended by the invisible and more divine eye which is placed in our mind.

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