Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 46

ed. Paul Wendland

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[46] ὅταν γὰρ τὸν ἐν τῇ ἀπολέμῳ εἰρήνῃ συνεχῆ καὶ ἐπάλληλον ἀνθρώπων ἁπάντων ἴδιον καὶ κοινόν, μὴ κατὰ ἔθνη καὶ χώρας ἢ πόλεις καὶ κώμας αὐτὸ μόνον,
ἀλλὰ καὶ κατ’ οἰκίαν καὶ ἕνα ἕκαστον τῶν ἐν μέρει συγκροτούμενον πόλεμον θεάσηται, τίς ἐστιν ὅ γε μὴ παραινῶν, κακίζων, νουθετῶν, σωφρονίζων, οὐ μεθ’ ἡμέραν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ νύκτωρ, τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῷ ἠρεμεῖν μὴ δυναμένης διὰ τὸ μισοπόνηρον φύσει;

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.) — 46 focus

[46] For when he sees war stirred up in the midst ¹² of tranquil peace, so as to be continued and incessant among all men, both public and private, not existing only among nations and countries, and cities and villages, but also in every house, and between each particular individual; who is there who does not reproach and admonish and seek to correct the foolish men whom he sees, and not by day only, but also by night, his soul being unable to remain tranquil by reason of the hatred of wickedness implanted in his nature?

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