Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 154

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[154] 31 ἐπιὼν δέ τις ἕκαστα μῆκος ἂν ἄπειρον τῷ λόγῳ δύναιτ’ ἂν περιθεῖναι. τὰ γὰρ βραχύτατα ζῷα τοῖς μεγίστοις ἀναλογίᾳ σκοπῶν ἴσα ¹ ἂν εὕροι, ὡς χελιδόνα ἀετῷ καὶ τρίγλαν κήτει καὶ μύρμηκα ἐλέφαντι. καὶ γὰρ σῶμα καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ πάθη, ἀλγηδόνες τε καὶ ἡδοναί, πρὸς δὲ καὶ οἰκειώσεις καὶ ἀλλοτριώσεις καὶ ὅσα ζῴων φύσις χωρεῖ, πάντα σχεδόν ἐστιν ὁμοιότροπα τῷ τῆς ἀναλογίας ἰσούμενα κανόνι.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 154 focus

But any one who examines all these things might add an interminable list of arguments and instances to this one present discussion. If he considered he would find the very smallest animals equal to the largest as to proportion; as for instance he would find the swallow equal to the eagle, the herring equal to the whale, and the ant equal to the elephant. For body and soul, and again pains and pleasures, and moreover affection for and dislike towards things, and all the other feelings which the nature of animals experience, are nearly all of them similar, being made equal by the rule of proportion.

Notes on the current edition

Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

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1 ὁ om. Pap bis οὐδὲ Pap 1.
2 ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ scripsi: (και) τὰ αυτα Pap (?), ἀλλὰ τὰ αὐτά καὶ codd. N
2 τάχεσιν ἴσοις Pap (Mang.): τάξεσιν ἴσαις codd. N
4 παραυξιν Pap τὴν Pap H2: om. ceteri N ὁ αερινην Pap 6.
7 ἀνακάμπτων—διαστήματα om. Α8 ἀφικνεῖσθαι PH1
7 χρόνον G
8 ἀλλ’ ἐν] ἀλλὰ conicio (Pap?)
9 μεταποιεῖσθαι PH1
10 μέρεσιν Pap
11 χεὶρ om. Pap ἀπάντα Pap: πάντα codd. N μεγέθη ΑΒ
12 κάτα τὰ εὐώνυμα Pap πάμπολα ΑΒ
13 ἀπόκρισις ΑΒ πλαστιξι Pap, πλάστιγγι AB
14 ἔνεστιν Pap τε om. Pap
15 λέγουσιν Pap ἀκριβέστατα Pap: ἀκριβέστεροι G, ἀκριβέστερον ceteri 15.
16 περὶ αὐτῶν ΑΒ
16 μέν om. Pap τέσσαρα ΑΒΗ, δύο P
17 τὸ ἴσον om. ΑΒ ἑκάστης Β
18 απονεμ(ουσηι) Pap? Turn.: ἀπονέμουσι GHP, om. ΑΒ
19 αὖ om. Pap 19.
20 τὴν δ’ ἀναλογίαν ΑΒ
20 κερασαμένην Pap: κερασάμεναι PH1, κερασάμενα ceteri ἡμᾶς Cohn: ητιειαν Pap, τὸ σῶμα ἡμῶν Mang., om. codd.
21 κράτησιν Pap δ΄ P ἀναλογίας] ἀλογίας G ἰσότητα G
22 ἄν ἄπειρον om. AB τῶ λόγω post περιθεῖναι transpos. codd. 22.
23 (πε(ριτ(ειναι) Pap
23 γὰρ addidi

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