Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 90

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[90] ῥᾳδίως γὰρ οὕτως ἔμελλε τὰ κατασκευαζόμενα τελειοῦσθαι. τοῦτ’ ἀπομιμούμενοι τὸ ἔργον οἱ μοχθηροὶ τὰς φύσεις, ὅταν τὰς ἀλόγους καὶ πλεοναζούσας τῶν παθῶν ὁρμὰς ταῖς ἀργαλεωτάταις κακίαις
ἀνακεράσωνται, τέμνουσι τὸ κραθὲν εἰς εἴδη καὶ διαπλάττουσι καὶ σχηματίζουσιν οἱ βαρυδαίμονες, δι’ ὧν ὁ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐπιτειχισμὸς μετέωρος ἀρθήσεται, τὴν αἴσθησιν εἰς ὅρασιν καὶ ἀκοήν, ἔτι δὲ γεῦσιν ὄσφρησίν τε καὶ ἁφήν, τὸ δὲ πάθος εἰς ἡδονὴν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν φόβον τε καὶ λύπην, τό τε κακιῶν γένος εἰς ἀφροσύνην, ἀκολασίαν, δειλίαν, ἀδικίαν καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα

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.) — 90 focus

[90] Imitating this work, those men who are wicked in their natures, when they mingle the irrational and extravagant impulses of the passions with the most grievous vices, are, in reality, dissecting that which has been combined into various species, and unhappy that they are fashioning them again and reducing them into shape, by means of which the blockade of the soul will be raised on high; these being, in fact, the divisions of the outward sense into seeing, and hearing, and taste, and smell, and touch. Passion, again, is divided into pleasure, and appetite, and fear, and grief; and the universal genus of vices is divided into folly, and intemperance, and cowardice, and injustice, and all the other vices which are akin to or closely connected with them.

Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 90

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