Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 147

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[147] μεγέθει δ’ ἴσα ἐν οὐρανῷ μὲν τοὺς παραλλήλους κύκλους, τούς τε ἰσημερινούς,
ἐαρινὸν καὶ μετοπωρινόν, καὶ τοὺς τροπικούς, θερινόν τε καὶ χειμερινόν, ἐπὶ γῆς δὲ ζώνας, δύο μὲν ἴσας ἀλλήλαις, αἳ πρὸς τοῖς πόλοις εἰσὶ κατεψυγμέναι καὶ διὰ τοῦτ’ ἀοίκητοι, δύο δὲ τὰς μεθορίους τούτων τε καὶ τῆς διακεκαυμένης, ἃς δι’ εὐκρασίαν φασὶν οἰκεῖσθαι, τὴν μὲν πρὸς τοῖς νοτίοις, τὴν δὲ πρὸς τοῖς βορείοις κειμένην.

Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 147 focus

[147] Again, he has divided things so as to make his divisions equal in point of magnitude; such as the parallel cycles in heaven, and those which belong to the equinoxes both of spring and autumn, and those which belong to the winter and summer solstice. And on the earth he has divided the zones, two being equal to one another, which being placed close to the poles are frozen with cold, and on this account are uninhabitable. And two he has placed on the borders between these two and the torrid zone, and these two they say are the abode of a happy temperature of the air, one of them lying towards the south and the other towards the north.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 147

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