Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 76

ed. Paul Wendland

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[76] ἀστῇ φέρων ἐδωρησάμην. ἐσπούδασα καὶ τρίτῃ συνελθεῖν — ἦν δὲ
εὔρυθμος, εὐάρμοστος, ἐμμελής, μουσικὴ δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο — καὶ ἐγέννησα ἐξ αὐτῆς διατονικὰ χρώματα καὶ ἐναρμόνια, συνημμένα, διεζευγμένα μέλη, τῆς διὰ τεττάρων, τῆς διὰ πέντε, τῆς διὰ πασῶν συμφωνίας ἐχόμενα, καὶ πάλιν οὐδὲν αὐτῶν ἀπεκρυψάμην, ἵνα πλουσία μοι γένηται ἡ ἀστὴ γυνή, μυρίων οἰκετῶν ὑπηρετουμένη πλήθει.

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.) — 76 focus

[76] I was desirous also to form a similar connection with a third, and she was full of good rhythm, well arranged, and well limbed, and was called music. And by her I became the parent of diatonic, and chromatic, and harmonic, and combined and separate melodies, and all the different concords belonging to fourths and to fifths, ¹ and to the diapason. And, again, I concealed none of all these things, in order that my legitimate citizen wife might become wealthy, being ministered unto by a multitude of ten thousand servants;

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