Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 151

ed. Paul Wendland

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[151] τὸν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦτον εἰ καλῶς ἔδωκε, βασανίζει. τίς οὖν ἡ βάσανος; καθεῖναί τι δέλεαρ ὁλκῷ κεχρημένον δυνάμει, δόξαν ἢ πλοῦτον ἢ ὑγείαν σώματος ἤ τι τῶν
ὁμοιοτρόπων, καὶ γνῶναι πρὸς πότερα καθάπερ ἐπὶ πλάστιγγος ταλαντεύσει· ῥοπὴ γὰρ εἰ γένοιτο πρός τι τούτων, ὁ ἀρραβὼν οὐ βέβαιος. ἀπέστειλεν οὖν τὸν ἔριφον κομίσασθαι τὸν ἀρραβῶνα παρὰ τῆς γυναικός, οὐ τοῦτο προῃρημένος πάντως ἀπολαβεῖν, ἀλλ’ εἴ ποτε ἀναξία τοῦ κατέχειν ἐκείνη γένοιτο. γενήσεται δὲ πότε;

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.) — 151 focus

[151] Therefore he examines the question as to whether he had properly given this pledge. What, then, is ¹²³ the examination? to throw down some bait having an attractive power, such as glory, or riches, or bodily health, or something similar, and to see to which it will incline, like the balance in a scale; for if there is any inclination to any one of these things the pledge is not sure. Therefore he sent a kid in order to recover back his pledge from the woman, not because he had determined by all means to recover it, but only in the case of her being unworthy to retain it.

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