Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 218

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[218] τοῦ δὲ καλλίστου
καὶ περιμαχήτου καὶ μόνῳ τῷ γένει τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἰκειοτάτου χάριν, σοφίας, μὴ οὐχὶ θάλατταν μὲν ἅπασαν περαιοῦσθαι, πάντα δὲ γῆς ¹² μυχὸν ἐπέρχεσθαι, φιλοπευστοῦντας εἴ πού τι καλὸν ἔστιν ἰδεῖν ἢ ἀκοῦσαι, καὶ μετὰ σπουδῆς καὶ προθυμίας τῆς p. 471 M. πάσης ἰχνηλατεῖν, ἄχρις ἂν ἐγγένηται τῶν ζητουμένων καὶ ποθουμένων εἰς ἀπόλαυσιν ἐλθεῖν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 218 focus

[218] and yet for men, for the sake of that most beautiful and desirable of all possessions, the only one which is peculiar to the human race, namely, wisdom, to be unwilling to cross over every sea and to penetrate every recess of the earth, inquiring whenever they can find anything beautiful either to see or to hear, and tracing out such things with all imaginable zeal and earnestness, until they arrive at the enjoyment of the things which are thus sought for and desired.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
2 συντρεφόμενος Μang.: συστρεφόμενος codd.
5 εὐερκέστατον Turn.: εὐεργέστατον MHP, εὐεργετικώτατον Α
7 ἐπειδὴ A: ἐπειδὰν MHP
9 τόπων] ὀπῶν Mang.
11 δέ MA: γάρ HP τὸ om. Α
12 βαδίζων Α
13 ὄντων μὴ δὲ MA
16 καὶ τῶν πορρωτάτω L λέγουσι] λόγισαι Mang.
17 γοῦν MA: γὰρ HP μέν om. HP 19.
20 μὴ νεότητα om. HP
22 πατρίδων Α πολιτειῶν Α φιλοτησιῶν Η2
23 κτημάτων καὶ om. Η 25.
26 καὶ μένῳ—ἄπασαν om. H
26 μὲν] μὴ P 25.
26 καὶ μόνῳ—ἅπασαν om. Η1, ἕνεκα λόγου μὴ περαιοῦσθαι πάντα μὲν πελάγη H2

2.
16 sqq. cf. commentationem meam „PhiIo und die kynisch - stoische Diatribe p 44. 45.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 218

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