Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 122

ed. Paul Wendland

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[122] ὃς γὰρ ἂν ὀλιγωρήσας τοῦ διδάσκοντος ὑπὸ ῥᾳθυμίας ἐμφύτου τε ὁμοῦ καὶ συνήθους τὰ μὲν πρόσω καταλίπῃ, δι’ ὧν ὁρᾶν καὶ ἀκούειν καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις δυνάμεσιν ἔστι χρῆσθαι πρὸς τὴν τῶν φύσεως πραγμάτων ἐπίκρισιν,
ἐκτραχηλίσας δ’ αὑτὸν εἰς τοὐπίσω περιαγάγῃ, τὰ τυφλὰ τῶν ἐν τῷ βίῳ πραγμάτων μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν τοῦ σώματος μερῶν ἐζηλωκώς, ἀψύχου καὶ κωφῆς λίθου τρόπον στηλιτεύεται.

De Fuga Et Inventione. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Fuga Et Inventione (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On Fugitives First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 122 focus

[122] For whoever despises his teacher, and under the influence of an innate and habitual indolence forsakes what is in front of him, by means of which it may be in his power to see, and to hear, and to exert his other powers, so as to form a judgment in things of nature, and turns his head round so as to keep his eyes on what is behind him, that man has an admiration for blindness in the affairs of life, as well as in the parts of the body, and becomes a pillar, like a lifeless and senseless stone.

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