Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 242

ed. Paul Wendland

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[242] λέγει δέ τις ἑκών, ὥστε, εἰ μὴ εὔφημον προΐεται φωνήν, ἀδικεῖ κακοδαιμονῶν, ὁ μηδ’ ἐκ τύχης ἐθέλων τι τῶν
ἐπιεικεστέρων φθέγξασθαι· ᾧ λυσιτελὲς τὴν ἀσφαλεστάτην ἡσυχίαν δεξιοῦσθαι· κἄπειτα μὴ ἡσυχάζων τις δύναται δήπου βουληθεὶς σιωπᾶν.

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.) — 242 focus

[242] but a man speaks intentionally, so that if he utters words which are not proper he is unhappy and is committing offence, since he does not even by chance choose to say anything that is proper, and it would be more for his advantage to adopt that safest expedient of silence: and, in the second place, anyone who is not silent can be silent if he pleases.

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