Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 19

ed. Paul Wendland

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[19] πάλιν
τε δορυφόροι ψυχῆς ἀκοαὶ καὶ ὄψεις ὄσφρησίς τε καὶ γεῦσις καὶ ξύμπαν τὸ αἰσθήσεως στῖφος, ἔτι μέντοι ὑγίεια καὶ ἰσχὺς δύναμίς τε καὶ ῥώμη· τούτοις γὰρ ὥσπερ ἑστῶσι καὶ κραταιῶς ἐρηρεισμένοις εὐερκέσιν οἴκοις ὁ νοῦς ἐμπεριπατῶν καὶ ἐνδιαιτώμενος ἀγάλλεται πρὸς μηδενὸς ταῖς ἰδίαις ὁρμαῖς χρῆσθαι κωλυόμενος, ἀλλ’ εὐμαρεῖς καὶ λεωφόρους ἀναπεπταμένας ἔχων τὰς διὰ πάντων ὁδούς.

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.) — 19 focus

[19] Again, the body-guards of the soul are hearing, and seeing, and smelling, and taste, and the whole band of the outward senses, and also health, and strength, and vigour, and energy. For the mind, when walking among and living in the company of these things, as between well-fortified boundaries firmly standing and solidly established, triumphs and rejoices, meeting with no hindrance on any side to prevent it from exerting its own impulses, but having its road in every direction easy, and level, and open, and easy to be travelled.

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