Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 22

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[22] τότε γὰρ ὥσπερ ἐν σκάφει ¹ ναυτῶν, ἐπιβατῶν, κυβερνητῶν κατά τινα φρενοβλάβειαν ἐπ’ ἀπωλείᾳ τούτου συμφρονησάντων καὶ οἱ ἐπιβουλεύσαντες αὐτῇ νηὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα συναπώλοντο. βαρύτατον γὰρ κακῶν καὶ σχεδὸν ἀνίατον μόνον ἡ πάντων τῶν ψυχῆς μερῶν πρὸς τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν συνεργία, μηδενὸς οἷα ἐν πανδήμῳ συμφορᾷ δυνηθέντος ὑγιαίνειν, ἵνα τοὺς πάσχοντας ἰᾶται, ἀλλὰ
καὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν ἅμα τοῖς ἰδιώταις καμνόντων, οὓς ἡ λοιμώδης νόσος ἐφ’ ὁμολογουμένῃ συμφορᾷ πιέσασα κατέχει.

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.) — 22 focus

[22] For then, as if in any vessel, the sailors, and the passengers, and the pilots, had all, under the influence of insanity, agreed to destroy it, those who have joined in the plot against it are none the less involved in the same destruction. For the heaviest of all evils, and almost the only one that is incurable, is the unanimous energy of all the parts of the soul agreeing to commit sin, not one of the parts being able to act with soundness (just as is the case in an evil affecting the whole people), so as to heal those that are sick; but even the physicians being diseased as well as their patients, whom the pestilential disease has overwhelmed and weighs down under a confessed calamity.

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 ἄλλης βαρείας HP
2 ἀνακραθῇ coni. Cohn
3 ἱκανῶς GF ἀναστρέψαι PL
4 ἑνὶ GF: ἔνι HP, ἐνῇ V
5 ἐπιθῆται scripsi: ἐπιθεῖναι codd. σώμτος P: σώματα GFH τὰ ante ψυχῆς om. GF
7 εὐδοξίαι P (ι vid. add. man. 2) v 7.
8 τιμαῖς ὠθοῦντες G
8 αὐτὸ εἰς G
10 ἀκοὴ καὶ ὄψις coui. Maug. ὄψις P 10.
11 τὸ ξύμπαν Η
11 αἰσθήσεων coui. Mang.
12 ὅς παρεκστῶσι HP εὐεργἐσιν GF οἴκοις GF: ὅρκοις HP, ὅροις V
13 ἐνδιαιτώμενος Maug.: διαιτώμενος codd.
14 post λεωφόρους add. καὶ Mang.
17 κατακρημνησ̓ηναι,(tH ἐμέλησε GF
18 τῶν add. Mang.
20 τῆς ψυχῆς bis habet F 21.
22 συγκεκληρῶσθαι G
22 τε om. v καὶ bis habet H
24 τὰς om. HP
25 ὠδίνει] ὀδύνη G 2G νηπιότητος GF: νεότητος HP
27 προσιπτάμνος G ἄε] τὸ G

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