Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 68

ed. Paul Wendland

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[68] ἀρχὴ γὰρ καὶ ἀφορμὴ φαύλῳ πρὸς τὰς παρὰ φύσιν ἐνεργείας τὸ κακίας χωρίον· ὅσοι δὲ μετανάσται μὲν ἀρετῆς ἐγένοντο, ταῖς δ’ ἀφροσύνης ἐχρήσαντο ἀφορμαῖς, οἰκειότατον εὑρόντες οἰκοῦσι
τόπον, ὃς Ἑβραίων μὲν γλώττῃ Σεναάρ, Ἑλλήνων δὲ ἐκτιναγμὸς καλεῖται·

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.) — 68 focus

[68] For folly is to the wicked man the beginning of his energy in the works which are contrary to nature, that is, of his approach to the region of wickedness. But all those who have quitted the region of virtue, and have set forth to go over to folly, have found a most appropriate place in which they dwell, which is called in the Hebrew language Shinar. And Shinar in Greek, is called "shaking;"

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