Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 156

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[156] 30 τίς οὖν πίστις τοῦ μὴ τετελεσιουργῆσθαι
τὴν κατασκευήν; ἡ ἐνάργεια πρώτη· γῆς γὰρ ὁτιοῦν μέρος ¹ ἀμήχανον οὐρανοῦ ψαῦσαι διὰ τὴν ἔμπροσθεν αἰτίαν, ὅτιπερ οὐδὲ κέντρον περιφερείας ἅπτεται· δευτέρα δ’, ὅτι ὁ αἰθήρ, ἱερὸν πῦρ, φλόξ ἐστιν ἄσβεστος, ὡς καὶ αὐτὸ δηλοῖ τοὔνομα παρὰ τὸ αἴθειν, ὃ δὴ καίειν ἐστὶ κατὰ γλῶτταν, εἰρημένον.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 156 focus

What, then, is the proof that they had not entirely completed this building? First of all, the manifest notoriety of the fact. For it is impossible for even so slight a portion of the earth to touch the heaven, by reason of the cause beforementioned, that no centre can ever touch the circumference; in the second place, because the aether ( αἰθής) is sacred fire and an unquenchable flame, as its very name shows, being derived from αἴθω, to burn, which is a synonymous word with καίω.

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς πυρετοῦ καταβολῆς τὸ παραπλήαον conicio τὸ alterum om. v
2 αἵ τε scripsi: ἔτι codd. ἀφημεριναὶ F διάτριποι F, διάτρυτοι G ταρταΐζουσαι H
4 κατασκήπτουσι scripsi : κατασκευάκασι F, κατεσκευάκασι GHP εἰς αὐτὰ καὶ GF, εἰς αὐτὰ HP, εἰς τὰ αὐτὰ Mang., αὐτὴν αἰεὶ conicio
5 ἤρξατο HP 5. ὁ χετλιασμοῦ Η ὁ λέγεται F
8 μὲν om. G
10 ἀθετήσωσιν L ἀνόυσιν HP
11 οὕτω HP
12 πλημλεῖν GP εὑρίσκοντι om. G
14 γὰρ addidi
15 πρὸς τὰ om. v ἀέρι F: ἀέρος GHP l6 τὰς] τῆς G ἅς τι τῶν Mang. ἅς [ἐστι] τῶν κακῶν ἕξω τοῦ κακηγορεῖν οὐ θέμις ἐστὶ conicio,
3 δ’ ἐστὶ et οὐκ ἔθος coni. Cohn
17 κατηγορεῖν ΗP
18 οὐ GFL2: ἐν HPL1
19 ἀιδίου HP οὔποπ G post ἀλλὰ add. καὶ GF
22 αἰτιαστἐον F, post αἰτιατέον lacunam suspicor supplendam ex p. 259,
15 —
17 οὗ GF: τοῦ HP, τούτου v 25. ὁ τετΛεσιουργεῖσθαι G, τελεσιουργῆσθαι P, τελεσιουργεῖσθαι F
26 ἡ] ἢ F ἐνέργεια P

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