De Confusione Linguarum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.
Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.
Table of Contents
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Current edition First1KGreek
De Confusione Linguarum (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)
Translations (1)
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.) — 65 focus
[65] For Balaam says, "Balak sent for me out of Mesopotamia, from the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me the people whom God doth not curse." But the name of Balak, being interpreted means, "void of sense;" a very felicitous name.
1
2
3
4
For how can it be otherwise than shocking to hope to deceive the living God, and to turn aside his most enduring and firmly established counsels by the sophistical devices of men?
Notes on the current edition
De confusione linguarum
1.
6 κιτήσαντες GF Σεννὰρ HP
9 κακίαι GF: κἀκεΤνι Η
10 τοῦ {AEv] fxev οὑν τοῦ conicio πρότερον F 12.
13 ἀσβέστου GF
13 εἰς οἱ GH ἠκούσαμέν τε καὶ PL
14 Μωυσέως P: Μωυσέος GFH, Μωσέως Eus τινὸς om. G λόγιον Eus: λόγον codd.
15 γε om. Eus πρόρρησις P
16 γε Eus: μή γε codd., μέν γε v
17 θείαν ἰδέαν φοροῦντα, ἱκανῶς ὁμολογήσεις Eus
18 τό] tu) F ἀνατολὴ plerique codd. Eus
19 oX(ov Eus: ὄντων codd.
21 τὰ Eus: om. codd.
22 ἐπὶ GFP: ὑπὸ H
23 τὸν G-: om. G’FHP ἐπαινούμενον] εὐλογούμενον coni. ilang. τοῦ θεοῦ HP
6 κιτήσαντες GF Σεννὰρ HP
9 κακίαι GF: κἀκεΤνι Η
10 τοῦ {AEv] fxev οὑν τοῦ conicio πρότερον F 12.
13 ἀσβέστου GF
13 εἰς οἱ GH ἠκούσαμέν τε καὶ PL
14 Μωυσέως P: Μωυσέος GFH, Μωσέως Eus τινὸς om. G λόγιον Eus: λόγον codd.
15 γε om. Eus πρόρρησις P
16 γε Eus: μή γε codd., μέν γε v
17 θείαν ἰδέαν φοροῦντα, ἱκανῶς ὁμολογήσεις Eus
18 τό] tu) F ἀνατολὴ plerique codd. Eus
19 oX(ov Eus: ὄντων codd.
21 τὰ Eus: om. codd.
22 ἐπὶ GFP: ὑπὸ H
23 τὸν G-: om. G’FHP ἐπαινούμενον] εὐλογούμενον coni. ilang. τοῦ θεοῦ HP
2.
13 —
21 Eus. Pr. ev. XI
15 καὶ πάλιν ἐπἐγει· νΠκουσα μἐwοι-τ̀ εἔδη. ταῦτά μοι ἀπὸ Toii ‘Eβραίου Φάωνος ἐνταῦθα κείσθω ληfiἐντα ἐκ συγγράμμτος, ᾧ τἐωιτι ἐπιγραφή· πέρι τοῦ τὸ χεῖρqν τῷ κρείττονι φιλεῖν ἐπιτίθεσθαι.
13 —
21 Eus. Pr. ev. XI
15 καὶ πάλιν ἐπἐγει· νΠκουσα μἐwοι-τ̀ εἔδη. ταῦτά μοι ἀπὸ Toii ‘Eβραίου Φάωνος ἐνταῦθα κείσθω ληfiἐντα ἐκ συγγράμμτος, ᾧ τἐωιτι ἐπιγραφή· πέρι τοῦ τὸ χεῖρqν τῷ κρείττονι φιλεῖν ἐπιτίθεσθαι.