Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 179

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[179] ἀφ’ οὗ μοι δοκεῖ καὶ τῶν παρ’ Ἕλλησι ποιητῶν ὁ δοκιμώτατος „ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημα“ φάναι, δηλῶν τὸ τῆς ὀξύτητος τάχος, κατ’ ἐπίτασιν ὕστερον τοῦ πτεροῦ τὸ νόημα θείς. ἐπὶ πολλὰ
γὰρ ἡ διάνοια ἐν ταὐτῷ πράγματα ὁμοῦ καὶ σώματα στείχει μετὰ ἀλέκτου φορᾶς, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ γῆς καὶ θαλάττης αὐτίκα πέρατα φθάνει συναιροῦσα καὶ τέμνουσα τὰ ἀπειρομεγέθη διαστήματα· κατὰ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον τοσοῦτον ἀπὸ γῆς ἀναπηδᾷ, ὡς δι’ ἀέρος εἰς αἰθέρα ἀνέρχεσθαι καὶ μόλις περὶ τὴν ἐσχάτην τῶν ἀπλανῶν ἁψῖδα ἵστασθαι.

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.) — 179 focus

[179] on which account the most illustrious of all the Greek poets appears to me to have said:— "Swift as a winged bird or fleeter thought." ¹ Showing by these words the exceeding speed of its promptitude, placing the thought after the winged bird as a sort of climax; for the mind advances at the same moment to very many things and bodies, hurrying on with indescribable impetuosity, and without a moment’s lapse of time it speeds at once to the borders of both earth and sea, bringing together and dividing infinite magnitudes by a single word; and at the same time it soars to such a height above the earth, that it penetrates ²³⁴ through the air and reaches even the aether, and scarcely stops at the very furthest circle of the fixed stars.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 179

ed. Paul Wendland

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