Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 182

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[182] τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν ἡμῶν ἐοικὸς πηγῇ δυνάμεις πολλὰς οἷα διὰ γῆς φλεβῶν ἀνομβροῦν, τὰς δυνάμεις ταύτας ἄχρι τῶν αἰσθήσεων [ὀργάνων], ὀφθαλμῶν, ὤτων, ῥινῶν,
τῶν ἄλλων, ἀποστέλλει· αἱ δ’ εἰσὶ παντὸς ζῴου περὶ κεφαλὴν καὶ πρόσωπον. ποτίζεται οὖν ὥσπερ ἀπὸ πηγῆς τοῦ κατὰ ψυχὴν ¹ ἡγεμονικοῦ τὸ σώματος ἡγεμονικὸν πρόσωπον, τὸ μὲν ὁρατικὸν πνεῦμα τείνοντος εἰς ὄμματα, τὸ δὲ ἀκουστικὸν εἰς οὖς, εἰς δὲ μυκτῆρας τὸ ὀσφρήσεως, τὸ δ’ αὖ γεύσεως εἰς στόμα καὶ τὸ ἁφῆς εἰς σύμπασαν τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν.

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.) — 182 focus

[182] The dominant part of us, like a fountain, pours forth many powers through the veins of the earth as it were, till they reach the organs of the external senses, that is to say, the eyes, and ears, and nostrils, and other organs; and these organs in every animal are situated about the head and face. Therefore, the face, which is the dominant portion of the body, is irrigated as from a fountain from the dominant portion of the soul; making the spirit, which is calculated for seeing, reach to the eyes, that which has the power of hearing reach the ears, the spirit of smelling reach the nostrils, that of taste the mouth, and causing that of touch to pervade the whole surface of the body.

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De fuga et inventione

1.
1 alteriim αἱ om. H1
3 alt. καὶ in ras. Η2
4 ἀπὸ νοῦ G
5 ἧς H2: εἰς G(H1)
10 ταύτῃ coni. Mang.
13 ᾄδεται ia ras. Η2
24 μὴν Mρὶ scripsi: μ̀ν περὶ GH1, περὶ ἡ H2, περὶ μὲν v καὶ G: om. Η
28 ἀνομβροῦν Η2: ἀνομβρεῖ G(H1)
29 ἄχρι-ὀργάνων lin.
28 post φλεβῶν transpos. H αἰστηθησεων Turn.: αἰσθήσεως codd. (sed v. lin.
30 αἱ) ὀργάνων secl. Cohn
31 ποτίζεται G2: ποτίζετ’ G1H

Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 182

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