Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 161

ed. Paul Wendland

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[161] ἀθλιώτερος δ’ ὁ νομιζόμενος ἐνδοξότερος εἶναι
βασιλεύς, ὃς τῷ προηγουμένῳ τῶν ἁρμάτων ἐποχεῖται· τὸ γὰρ μὴ ἐν καλοῖς διαπρέπειν ἐπιφανέστατον αἶσχος, ὡς τὸ φέρεσθαι τὰ ἐν τούτοις δευτερεῖα κουφότερον κακόν.

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.) — 161 focus

[161] And he is more miserable who is looked upon as a king of considerable renown, and who is born along in the chariot which has the precedence; for to be preeminent in what is not honourable is the most conspicuous disgrace, just as it is a lighter evil to come off second best in such a contest.

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