Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 5

ed. Paul Wendland

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[5] θαυμάσιοι δὲ ἀρεταὶ ἥ τε εὐτολμία καὶ ἡ ἐν τῷ δέοντι παρρησία πρὸς
τοὺς ἀμείνους, ὡς καὶ τὸ κωμικὸν ἀψευδῶς μᾶλλον ἢ κωμικῶς εἰρῆσθαι δοκεῖν

ἂν πάνθ’ ὁ δοῦλος ἡσυχάζειν μανθάνῃ,

πονηρὸς ἔσται· μεταδίδου παρρησίας.

2 πότε οὖν ἄγει παρρησίαν οἰκέτης πρὸς δεσπότην;

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.) — 5 focus

[5] and the most admirable virtues are boldness and freedom of speech at suitable times towards one’s betters, so that the sentence in the comic poet appears to me to be uttered with truth rather than with comic humour:— ¹² If a slave is always dumb, He is scarcely worth a crumb: Let him, freely told, boldly speak.

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