Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 185

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[185] μῖξις μὲν οὖν σωμάτων διαφερόντων ἐστὶν οὐκ ἐν κόσμῳ παράθεσις, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τις σωρὸν ποιήσειε κριθὰς καὶ πυροὺς
καὶ ὀρόβους καὶ ἄλλ’ ἄττα εἴδη τῶν σπαρτῶν εἰς ταὐτὸ εἰσενεγκών, ¹² κρᾶσις δ’ οὐ παράθεσις, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἀνομοίων μερῶν εἰς ἄλληλα εἰσδυομένων δι’ ὅλων ἀντιπαρέκτασις, ἔτι δυναμένων ἐπιτεχνήσει τινὶ διακρίνεσθαι τῶν ποιοτήτων, ὡς ἐπὶ οἴνου καὶ ὕδατός φασι γίνεσθαι·

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.) — 185 focus

[185] Mixture then is a placing side by side of different bodies in no regular order, as if any one were to make a heap, bringing barley, and wheat, and pease, and all sorts of other seeds, all into one mass; but combination is not a placing side by side, but rather a mutual penetration of dissimilar parts entering into one another at all points, so that the distinctive qualities are still able to be distinguished by some artificial skill, as they say is the case with respect to wine and water;

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 ἐμπρεπέστατον Mang. : ἐμπρεπἐστατα codd. δέ θεῷ conicio
2 fort. add. δι’ αὐτοῦ μόνου
2 τῷ ἀρίστῳ scripsi : τῶν ἀρίσιων GF, τὸν ἄριστον ΗP 3αὐτῶνL
4 prius ὁ onm. P με om. P
5 τῶν om. F
7 μόνον ὡς scripsi: μόνως codd.
9 φορὰν P
10 καὶ om. HP
12 ἵλεως Turn.: λλεω codd., τὰς ἵλεως conicio, ὡς ἵλεως coni. Cohn
15 τῶν om. GF
17 δ’ F ἐρευνήσωμεν Η
18 ὥς om. G γέ μοι F
20 τρόπον om. P
21 γἐνοιτ᾿ scripsi: γἐνοtντ’ FP, γίνοιντ’ GH
22 πραγμάτων G
24 ἐστὶν] δ’ N
25 ποιήσει G
22 ἄλλ’ ἄττα N (Diels): ἄλλα τ GF, ἄλλα πα P, ἄλλ τὰ H ταὐτό HP: αὐτό GFN, ταὐτὸν V

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23 sqq. cf. Doxographos p. 463, Alexandri De anima librum p. 11,15 sqq. Bruns.
24 — 265,9 N fol. 188: μῖξις—οἶνος.

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