Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 26

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[26] 8 οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ἐπὶ τῆς ἁλμυρᾶς φάραγγος ὁμαιχμίαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους θέμενοι. κοῖλον γὰρ καὶ τραχὺ καὶ φαραγγῶδες τὸ κακιῶν καὶ παθῶν χωρίον, ἁλμυρὸν τῷ ὄντι καὶ πικρὰς φέρον ¹ ὠδῖνας, ὧν ὁ σοφὸς Ἀβραὰμ τὸ ἐνώμοτον καὶ ἔνσπονδον οὔθ’ ὅρκων οὔτε σπονδῶν ἐπάξιον εἰδὼς καθαιρεῖ· λέγεται γὰρ ὅτι „πάντες οὗτοι συνεφώνησαν ἐπὶ τὴν φάραγγα τὴν ἁλυκήν· αὕτη ἡ θάλασσα τῶν ἁλῶν„ (Gen. 14, 3).

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.) — 26 focus

These are they who "made a treaty with one another in the valley of Salt." ¹ For the region of the vices and of the passions is a hollow valley, rough, and full of ravines; truly salt, and producing bitter pains; and their treaty, as one that was not worthy of being confirmed by any oath or by any libation, the wise Abraham, who knew the character of it, annulled. For it is said in the scripture that, "All these men made a treaty at the valley of Salt, that is the sea of Salt."

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De confusione linguarum

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2 συμφρονησάντων F: συμφωνησάντων GIIP αὐτῇ νηὶ scripsi: αὐτὴν ^ G, αὐτὴν ἢ F, αὐτὴ HP ἧπον coui. Mang. o κακὸν GF
4 συνέργεια II b συμφορὰ HP; φορά GF, φθορᾶ̣ conit io
8 σύμβολον (vel σημεῖον) aciil. Mans:.
9 τῶν post οὐρανe add. G λαὐρω F
12 ἀναμιγνύμενα IIPL’: ἅμα μιγνύμενα GFL-
13 δεδεμ νον G στρόβοι F
16 νοῦν] νῦν Turn.
17 ἀτιθάσσων F
18 ἡδικlιMι F: ἡδίκειGΗP 1!) ydp om. GF
22 μἡποτ’H:ρήποτ’ οὐκGFP,μἡποτ'οὐκα;.εικότως conicio 23.
24 δύναιτο—ὅτι om. F
23 ἀδιάφθορον coni. Manff.
24 κατελίπετο G, κατελέλειπτο conicio πᾶς sechisi (oui. v) vel scrib. τά πονηβ
25 λογισμὸς ἡμ͂ν νοσεῖ τὴν F
28 κακίστων P, eorr. in rag. καὶ add. Mang. ἁλμυράς F φἐρων GF

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