Philo Judaeus, De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia, ed. Paul Wendland, 50

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[50] 10 Μελχὰν δὲ ἄγεται γυναῖκα, οὐκ ¹ ἀνθρώπων ἢ πόλεων ἀφηγουμένην, ἢν τύχῃ, βασιλίδα, ἀλλ’ ὁμώνυμον αὐτὸ μόνον ἐκείνῃ. καθάπερ γὰρ τὸν οὐρανόν, ἅτε κράτιστον ὄντα τῶν γεγονότων, βασιλέα τῶν αἰσθητῶν εἴποι τις ἂν οὐκ ἀπὸ σκοποῦ, οὕτως καὶ τὴν περὶ αὐτὸν ἐπιστήμην, ἣν μετίασιν οἱ ἀστρονομοῦντες καὶ Χαλδαῖοι διαφερόντως, βασιλίδα τῶν ἐπιστημῶν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 50 focus

And he takes Milcah for his wife, not being some queen who by the dispensations of fortune governs some nation of men, or some city, but only one who bears a common name, the same as here. For, just as a person would not be widely wrong who called the world, as being the most excellent of all created things, the king of the objects of the external sense; so, also, one may call the knowledge which is conversant about the heaven, which knowledge those who study astronomy and the Chaldaeans possess in an eminent degree, the queen of all the sciences.

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De congressu eruditionis gratia

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1 συμβούλων Η1 δὲ GF μεταβαλόντες MG: μεταβάλλοντες (sic) H, μεταλαβόντες AF
2 φέρε F post οὑν add. τὴν GF
3 ἐρευνήσωμεν GF, mg. H2: ὑπομνήσωμεν MA, ἀναμνήσωμεν H1 Ναὼρ GF μελχὶ G
4 βάσις σαρουμὰ GF, βασιλίς, Ῥουμὰ conicio
7 ἀφώνου Α 7.
8 ἡ αὐλητοῦ μὴ αὐλοῦντος post κιθαρίζοντος transpos. GF
9 πράξεων G
10 οὐ] ὁ G
6 θὼ. G
11 ἐξαγκωνισθεὶς om. GF ἀπόναιτο GF
12 εἰ G: om. ceteri
13 κῆρα Turn. (vel κῆρ᾿ scrib.): κήραν MAGH, κείραν F
14 τά om. GF 14.
15 περιλαμβάνεται Η, περιλαμβάνηται L1
15 ἐμβλέπει MAH1 ἐγχρειομένη G καὶ νέοις MAH1 ἡ A ἥ Α δὲ G γεννωμένου Α
19 ἀγέννητον AHF πρός] εἰς MA(H1) κόσμον πλαστὴν MA (H1) 20.
21 μένουσαν] ἠρεμοῦσαν bene coni. Mang.
21 δ’ om. GFL πεπηγυῖαν τρόπον G
23 ante prius πρὸ add. καὶ, sed rursus del. H prius πρὸ] παρὸ Α 24.
25 τετιμηκὼς —θεοῦ in mg. supplevit L
24 αὐτῶ FL 24.
25 παντοκράτορα et παντοκράτορος coni. Mang.

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