Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 238

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[238] καθάπερ γὰρ τοῖς χερσαίοις
οἰκειότατον χωρίον γῆ καὶ μάλιστα τοῖς ἑρπετοῖς, ἃ μηδ’ ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς ἰλυσπώμενα ἀνέχεται, φωλεοὺς δὲ καὶ καταδύσεις ζητεῖ τὸν ἄνω χῶρον ἀποδιδράσκοντα διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὰ κάτω συγγένειαν, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τοῖς πτηνοῖς ὁ ἀὴρ ἐνδιαίτημα οἰκεῖον, κούφοις διὰ τὴν πτέρωσιν ὁ φύσει κοῦφος. ὅταν οὖν τὰ ἀεροπόρα αἰθεροβατεῖν ὀφείλοντα
καταβαίνῃ, πρὸς χέρσον ἀφικνούμενα τῷ κατὰ φύσιν ἀδυνατεῖ χρῆσθαι βίῳ.

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.) — 238 focus

[238] For, as the earth is the most appropriate place for land animals, and above all for reptiles, which do not endure even to crawl upon it, but seek caves and lurking places, avoiding the regions which are above, on account of their kindred with the things which are below; so, in the same manner, the air is the appropriate abode for the winged race, the element which is by nature light is the proper home for those creatures which are light by reason of their being feathered. When, therefore, those creatures, whose nature it is to traverse the air and who ought to roam through the aether, descend and come down upon the land, they are unable to live a life according to their nature.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 238

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