Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 100

ed. Paul Wendland

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[100] τῷ δ’ ἐκ λήθης ἔξω προϊόντι συμβαίνει κατὰ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον ἀναμιμνῄσκεσθαι· μαθήσεως δὲ
ἀνάμνησις οἰκεῖον. πολλάκις γὰρ τοῦ μανθάνοντος ἀπορρεῖ τὰ θεωρήματα μὴ δυναμένου δι’ ἀσθένειαν κρατεῖν καὶ πάλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπαναπλεῖ. τὸ μὲν οὖν τῆς ἀπορροῆς πάθος ὀνομάζεται λήθη, τὸ δὲ τῆς παλιρροίας ἀνάμνησις.

De Mutatione Nominum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 100 focus

[100] for it must of necessity happen to the man who has advanced out of forgetfulness to recollect, and recollecting especially belongs to learning, for very often his notions escape from the man who is learning, as out of weakness he is unable to retain them, and then again they return to him as at the beginning. The condition therefore which arises from this escaping of his notions is denominated forgetfulness, and that which arises from their returning to him is called recollection.

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