Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 146

ed. Paul Wendland

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[146] μουσικὰ μὲν γάρ, εἰ τύχοι, καὶ γραμματικὰ καὶ γεωμετρικὰ καὶ δίκαια καὶ φρόνιμα καὶ ἀνδρεῖα καὶ σώφρονα πάμπολλά ἐστιν· αὐτὸ δὲ τοῦτο τὸ μουσικὸν καὶ γραμματικὸν καὶ γεωμετρικόν, ἔτι δὲ δίκαιον καὶ σῶφρον
φρόνιμόν τε καὶ ἀνδρεῖον ἓν αὐτὸ μόνον τὸ ἀνωτάτω, μηδὲν ἰδέας ἀρχετύπου διαφέρον, ἀφ’ οὗ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ ἀμύθητα ἐκεῖνα διεπλάσθη.

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.) — 146 focus

[146] for musical precepts, to take them for an instance, or rules of ¹ grammar, or of geometry, or of justice, or of wisdom, or of manly courage, or of temperance, are very numerous indeed; but the science itself of music, or grammar, or geometry, and still more the virtue of justice, or temperance, or wisdom, or manly courage, is only one thing, the loftiest perfection, in no respect differing from the archetypal model, after which all those numerous and countless precepts were formed.

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