Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 87

ed. Paul Wendland

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[87] τῆς μέντοι κατορθώσεως ἔσονται | θεμέλιοι κραταιότατοι οἵδε, ἄμορφα μορφῶσαι τύποις καὶ σχήμασι καὶ περιγραφαῖς ἕκαστον ἰδίᾳ διακρῖναι, μὴ κραδαινόμενα καὶ χωλαίνοντα, ἀλλὰ p. 418 M. πεπηγότα
βεβαίως, τῇ τοῦ τετραγώνου σχήματος οἰκειούμενα φύσει — ἀκράδαντον γὰρ τοῦτό γε —, ἵνα πλίνθου τινὰ τρόπον ἀκλινῶς ἐρηρεισμένα βεβαίως καὶ τὰ ἐποικοδομούμενα δέχηται.

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.) — 87 focus

[87] Now of success in this matter these will be the most established foundations: to give to things without form shape ¹² and character, and to distinguish each thing separately with distinct outlines, lest, if they become shaken and lame (though fixed on firm foundations,) and if they have assumed a connection with the nature of a quadrangular shape, (for this is a nature always unshaken), they may then, being established steadily like a building of brick, support even those things which are built upon them.

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