Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 147

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[147] διὸ καί τινες τῶν τὴν ἥμερον καὶ κοινωνικὴν μετιόντων φιλοσοφίαν μεσότητας τὰς ἀρετὰς εἶπον εἶναι, ἐν μεθορίῳ στήσαντες αὐτάς, ἐπειδὴ τό τε ὑπέραυχον ἀλαζονείας
γέμον πολλῆς p. 459 Μ. κακὸν καὶ τὸ ταπεινοῦ καὶ ἀφανοῦς μεταποιεῖσθαι σχήματος εὐεπίβατον, τὸ δὲ μεταξὺ ἀμφοῖν κεκραμένον ἐπιεικῶς ὠφέλιμον.

De Migratione Abrahami. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Migratione Abrahami (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Migration of Abraham First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 147 focus

[147] On which account some also of those who prosecute a gentle kind of philosophy, which is conversant chiefly about the society of mankind, have pronounced the virtues to be means, placing them on the confines between two extremes. Since, on the one hand, excessive pride, being full of much insolence is an evil, and to take up with a humble and self-abasing demeanour is to expose one’s self to be trampled upon; but the mean, which is compounded of both, in a gentle manner is advantageous.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 διατηρήσατε MA: καὶ τηρήσατε HP, διατηρήσετε conicio
2 πράξεσι L
4 λαὸν coni. Mang.
5 ἐκ λίθων AP2 ἐκτέτμησαι Α λόχον Α
6 τὸ AH1P: γὰρ τὸ MH2 ἐρρωμενέστατον Η
7 ὡς] εἰς coni. Mang. 8.
9 λογισμοῦ ἀσθένεια HP
9 ὑπὲρ Mang.: ὑπ’ codd.
10 εὐαλώτατος Turn., εὐάλωτος Mang. ὁ] ὧ MA
12 κουφοτάτων Η
13 εὐθυβόλως A
14 Λείαν H: Λεία MAP
16 νενόμικε καὶ οὐδὲ H2: νενόμικεν οὐδέ MAH1P 19.
20 γήινος δεδωκέναι πέφυκεν A
23 εὔρυνεν Cohn, post ηὔρυνεν lacunam statuit Mang.
24 μεσότητα Η
26 τὸ scripsi: τοῦ codd.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 147

ed. Paul Wendland

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