Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 164

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[164] τί οὖν ἔτι τὰς τῶν τυράννων τύχας ὡς μακαρίων
ζηλοῦτε καὶ θαυμάζετε, δι’ ἃς εὐπετῶς ἕκαστα ἐπεξίασιν, ὧν ἂν ὁ ἐκλελυττηκὼς κἀκτεθηριωμένος τέκῃ νοῦς, καὶ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς δέον ¹ ἐπιστένειν, εἴ γε ἀπορία καὶ [ἡ] ἀσθένεια κακοῖς λυσιτελές, ὡς περιουσία καὶ ἰσχὺς ἀγαθοῖς ὠφελιμώτατον;

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.) — 164 focus

[164] Why, then, my friends, do you any longer praise or admire the fortunes of tyrants, owing to which they succeed with ease in everything which they undertake, and which a frenzied and unrestrained mind prompts them to do? And yet one ought rather to lament over them, since inability and powerlessness to succeed in their objects is advantageous to the wicked, just as abundant opportunity and power is the most beneficial thing for the good.

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 καίτοι] καί τις F ἐπετίθετο coni. Mang.
3 ἀμνηστείαν F καὶ om. Turn. τὸν nm. G
5 τῆς εἰσαεὶ G
8 ἐλθόντες H
9 ἐξιόντες P1 ἑαυτῶν HP
12 λόγους Maug. : λόγων codd.
13 ὁρίζειν GF
14 ὀφἐλειαν G
15 ἄν HP: ἐὰν GF ἐπείθωνται HP ἀπεριγράπτου HP l6 οἷς] ὅσα G ἐπιθῆται scripsi: ἐπιτη codd.
17 μὴ addidi
18 προαπαντᾶν H: προσαπαντᾶν GPL, προσαπαντῶν F ἑκάστης HP
21 αὑτῷ v τῴ] τὸ G 22.
23 ἐπιθέμενος v
23 εὐώδῆ F κωλυθεὶς scripsi: κώλυσις codd.
24 ὑποβάλλει H (P evanidus), ἀποβαλεῖ conicio
25 ὡς μακαρίων scripsi: ὦ μακάριοι codd.
26 δι’ ὧν coni. Mang.
27 καὶ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς] τοὐναντίον conicio. κατ’ ἐναντίον coui. Cohn αὐτοῖς L

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