Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 200

ed. Paul Wendland

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[200] ἔπειτα ὀρύττουσιν οὐχ ὡς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαάκ, οἱ σοφοί, φρέατα (Gen. 21,30. 26,18), βαθείας ἐπιστήμας ποτίμους λόγους ἀναδιδούσας,
ἀλλὰ λάκκους, ἴδιον οὐδὲν ἐξ ἑαυτῶν ἔχοντας τρόφιμον καλόν, τῆς δ’ ἔξωθεν χρῄζοντας ἐπιρροῆς, ἣ γένοιτ’ ἂν ἐκ διδασκαλίας ἐπαντλούντων ἀεὶ τῶν ὑφηγητῶν ἀκοαῖς τῶν μανθανόντων ἀθρόα τὰ ἐπιστήμης δόγματα καὶ θεωρήματα, καὶ φρενὶ κατασχεῖν καὶ μνήμῃ τὰ παραδοθέντα ταμιεύεσθαι.

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.) — 200 focus

[200] Then they dig, not as the wise men Abraham and Isaac did, making wells, but cisterns, which have no good nutritious stream belonging to and proceeding from themselves, but requiring an influx from without, which must proceed from instruction. While the teachers are always pouring into the ears of their disciples all kinds of doctrines and speculations of science altogether, admonishing them to retain them in their minds, and to preserve them when faithfully committed to memory.

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