Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 66

ed. Paul Wendland

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[66] διὰ τοῦτο καὶ Μεσοποταμίαν οἰκεῖ καταπεποντωμένης ὥσπερ ἐν μεσαιτάτῳ
ποταμοῦ βυθῷ τῆς διανοίας αὐτοῦ καὶ μὴ δυναμένης ἀνανήξασθαι καὶ ἀνακῦψαι· τοῦτο δὲ τὸ πάθος ἀνατολὴ μὲν ἀφροσύνης, κατάδυσις δὲ εὐλογιστίας ἐστίν.

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.) — 66 focus

[66] On this account he is represented as living in Mesopotamia, for his mind is overwhelmed as in the middle of the depth of the river, and is not able to emerge and to swim away. And this condition is the dawning of folly and the setting of sound reason.

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