Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 262

ed. Paul Wendland

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[262] καθάπερ λύπη καὶ φόβος ἰδίας ἀναφθέγξεις ἔχουσιν, ἃς ἂν τὸ βιασάμενον καὶ κρατῆσαν ὀνοματοποιήσῃ πάθος, οὕτως εὐβουλίαι καὶ εὐφροσύναι φυσικαῖς ἐκφωνήσεσιν ἀναγκάζουσι χρῆσθαι, ὧν οὐκ ἂν εὕροι τις κυριωτέρας καὶ εὐθυβολωτέρας
κλήσεις, κἂν τυγχάνῃ περὶ τὰς κλήσεις σοφός.

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.) — 262 focus

[262] As grief and fear have their appropriate expressions which the passion, when more than usually violent and predominant, gives utterance to; so also, good counsels and happiness compel a man to employ a natural expression of them, for which no one could find out more appropriate and felicitous names, even if he were very skilful in the imposition of names.

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