Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 75

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[75] διὸ καὶ θαυμάζων τῆς περὶ τὴν φύσιν εὐμοιρίας τὸν τρόπον αἰτιῶμαι τοσοῦτον, ὅτι προκληθεὶς εἰς ¹ ἅμιλλαν λόγων ἧκεν ἀγωνιούμενος, δέον ἐπὶ τῆς συνήθους ἠρεμίας στῆναι πολλὰ χαίρειν φράσαντα τῷ φιλονείκῳ, εἰ δ’ ἄρα ἐβούλετο πάντως διαγωνίσασθαι, μὴ πρότερον κονίσασθαι ἢ τοῖς p. 448 M. τεχνικοῖς παλαίσμασιν ἐνασκηθῆναι· τῶν γὰρ ἀγροικοσόφων οἱ τὰ πολιτικὰ κεκομψευμένοι μάλιστά
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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.) — 75 focus

[75] for which reason, though I admire him on account of the good fortune with which he was endowed by nature, I nevertheless blame the disposition in him that, when he was challenged to a contest of discussion, he came forward to contend, when he ought to have abided by his usual tranquillity, discarding all love for contention. But if he was determined by all means to enter into such a contest, then still he ought not to have engaged in it until he had sufficiently practised himself in the exercises of the art; for men who have been long versed in political strife are usually accustomed to get the better of men of uncultivated acuteness.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 τῶ ante θλαδίαν add. H2 1.
2 ἀποκεκομμένην Α
2 τὸν Α: τὸ P, τῶ H, om. M, τῷ τὸν ν
5 ἐπιγραφόμενος scripsi (cf. Clem.): αἰνιττόμενος codd.
7 δέ ἐστιν M
8 πρότερον Η
10 ἐπ’ ἀρετῆς] ἐπαινετόν Mang. ἔοικεν om. Α
11 προφορὰ H2: προφορὰ MH1P, προφοραὶ Α διὰ] ἀπὸ Η 11.
12 ἀπορροὴ H: ἀπορροὴ MAP
12 διάνοια HP
13 μεῖζον HP χρωμένην Turn.: χρωμένη codd. προφορὰ H
14 ἡνιοχουμένη HP βέλτια P
18 διὰ om. M
21 ἐπινέμει coni. Μang.
23 τε Cohn: γε codd.
25 ἐστι τοῦ τὰ H2
27 Κάιν Μang.: καὶ codd.
28 ante τῆς add. αὐτὸν H2
29 τοῦτον H2

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