Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 66

ed. Paul Wendland

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[66] εἰ δέ τινες καὶ προσέχουσι, τοσοῦτον χρόνον καθέζονται μόνον ἀκούοντες, ἀπαλλαγέντες δ’ οὐδενὸς τῶν εἰρημένων διαμέμνηνται, καὶ ἧκον τερφθῆναι δι’ ἀκοῆς μᾶλλον ἢ ὠφεληθῆναι· ὥστε οὐδὲν αὐτῶν ἴσχυσεν ἡ
ψυχὴ συλλαβεῖν καὶ κυοφορῆσαι, ἀλλ’ ἅμα τὸ κινοῦν τὴν ἡδονὴν αἴτιον p. 529 M. ἡσύχασε καὶ ἡ προσοχὴ κατεσβέσθη.

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.) — 66 focus

[66] And if any persons do attend, they sit all that time only listening, and when they have departed they do not recollect a word of what has been said, but they have come in fact rather to be pleased through the medium of their hearing than with the view of deriving any solid advantage; ¹² so that their soul has not been able to comprehend anything or to become pregnant with any new idea, and even the cause which at first excited their pleasure soon ceases and their attention is extinguished.

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