Philo Judaeus, De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia, ed. Paul Wendland, 156

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[156] ὥσθ’ ὅσῳ δυνατώτερον
καὶ δραστικώτερον καὶ τοῖς ὅλοις κρεῖττον διάνοια χειρός ἐστι, ¹² τοσούτῳ τῆς ἐγκυκλίου μουσικῆς ἐπιστήμην καὶ φρόνησιν θαυμασιωτέραν εἶναι νενόμικα καὶ διαφερόντως ἐκτετίμηκα. λαβοῦσα οὖν, ὦ καὶ ὑπάρχουσα καὶ πρὸς ἐμοῦ νομιζομένη κυρία, τὴν ἐμὴν ἅπασαν παιδείαν ὡς θεραπαινίδι χρῶ, „ὡς εὐάρεστόν σοι.“

De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the Meeting for the sake of seeking Instruction First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 156 focus

[156] so that in proportion as the mind is more powerful and more efficacious than, and in short superior to, the hand, in the same proportion also do I look upon knowledge and wisdom as more admirable than encyclical accomplishment, and I honour them in a higher degree. Do thou, therefore, O thou who both art the mistress, and who art so accounted by me, take all my encyclical instruction and use it as thy handmaid, doing to it as it shall seem good to thee;

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De congressu eruditionis gratia

1.
1 μηδέποτε Α εἰς GF αὑτὸν G ἴσως οὐκ #x003E; e. gr. coiiicio μὲν om. GF περὶ] ὑπὲρ F
2 οἰκέτιν] παιδίσκην om. GF 2.
3 ἄδηλον—αὐτὴν om. G
3 εἰ δ’ MAH: τάχα δὲ GF, τάχα καὶ L2 ὑμῖν ἐναντίον L1
4 γνώμην ἀμήχανον μὲν ἑτέρω συνιδεῖν, ῥᾴδιον GF
6 προκατεγνωκυῖα Η: προκατεγνωκυίας MA, κατεγνωκυῖα GF ἀλλ’] ἀλλ’ ἀντ’ G, ἀλλ’ ἅτ’ F τάχα GF
7 ἀψευδῶς οὐκ om. G μακρὸν Η ἀνεφαίνετο G
9 9 GF (Clem.): om. MAH
10 ὁμολογεῖ ἀμφότερα GF
11 νηπίαν Turn.: νήπιον codd. ἐκατέρων Α
12 ἐναντίαν vel τἀναντία τῇ τῇ ἐιστήμῃ conicio
13 νηπία τὴν τελείαν GF: τελεία τὴν νηπίαν MAH μονονουχὶ GF
15 δ’ GF alt. καὶ] τε καὶ G
17 σημεῖον δὲ πέφυκε καὶ ἑτέρου τοιούτου H
18 χρείας coni. Mang. σώματος H: σώματα MA, om. GF
19 ἔρχονται Η 19.
20 λογισμῶ τε γὰρ GFL2
20 τε om. GF ὡς G, om. F
21 post δραστικώτερον add. ἀδυνατώτερον M κρείττω F διάνοια χειρός Mang. : διάνοια χρεῖος GFH2, διανοίας χρεῖος MAH1

2. 9. 14—16 Clem. Alex. Strom.
1 32 p. 335 P.: „ἰδοὺ ἡ παιδίσκη ἐν ταῖς χερσί σου, χρῶ αὐτῇ ὡς ἄν σοι ἀρεστὸν ᾗ“ φησὶ δηλῶν, ὅτι ἀσπάζομαι μὲν τὴν κοσμικὴν παιδείαν καὶ ὡς νεωτέραν καὶ ὡς σὴν θεραπαινίδα, τὴν δὲ ἐπιστήμην τὴν σὴν ὡς τελείαν δέσποιναν τιμῶ καὶ

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