Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 150

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[150] δύο δ’ εἰσὶν ἐμφιλόσοφοι καὶ ἡγεμονίδες, ἀκοὴ καὶ ὅρασις· βραδύτερα δέ πως καὶ θηλύτερα ὦτα ὀφθαλμῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ὁρατὰ φθανόντων ὑπὸ εὐτολμίας καὶ οὐκ ἀναμενόντων, ἄχρις ἂν ἐκεῖνα κινήσῃ, προϋπαντιαζόντων δὲ καὶ
ἀντικινῆσαι γλιχομένων. ἀκοὴ μὲν οὖν, διότι βραδεῖα καὶ θηλυτέρα, δευτερεύουσαν τάξιν τετάχθω, p. 23 M. προνομία δ’ ἔστω τις ἐξαίρετος ὁράσει· ταύτην γὰρ ὁ θεὸς βασιλίδα τῶν ἄλλων ἀπέφηνεν ἐπάνω θεὶς ἁπασῶν καὶ ὥσπερ ἐπ’ ἀκροπόλεως ἱδρυσάμενος οἰκειοτάτην ἀπειργάσατο ψυχῇ. ¹²³ τεκμηριώσαιτο δ’ ἄν τις ἐκ τοῦ συμμεταβάλλειν ταῖς ἐκείνης τροπαῖς·

De Abrahamo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Abrahamo (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1902.)

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On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 150 focus

[150] But there are two of these outward senses which have something philosophical and preeminent in them, namely, sight and hearing. But the ears are in some degree more slow and more effeminate than the eyes, since the latter go with promptness and courage to what is to be seen, and do not wait until the objects themselves are in motion, but go forward to meet them, and desire to move themselves so as to face them. But the sense of hearing, inasmuch as that is slow and more effeminate, may be classed in the second rank, and the sense of seeing may be allowed an especial pre-eminence and privilege: for God has made this sense a sort of queen of the rest, placing it above them all, and stationing it as it were on a citadel, has made it of all the senses in the closest connection with the soul;

Notes on the current edition

De Abrahamo

1.
1 ψυχῶν H2(v)
2 συμβολικῶς om. BEK, cum λεχθήσεται coniungit Arm

2.
3 πέντε om. Arm
4 μικραί—μεγάλαι om. Arm τε αὖ BEK: αὖ om. ceteri ἢ] ὃ G
5 χρημάτων AFGHP τ᾿ BEK
6 ἐντελεστάτων C
8 ἔτι δὲ λείοις BEKA: ἔτι τε λείοις F2HP2, ἔτι τελείοις MF1GP1, ἔν τε λείος C ζωοδέσταται BE μὲν—ἀνδραποδωδέσταται om. G, μὲν—πέντε om. F οὖν om. BE 8.
9 ἀντραποδωδέσταται E, ἀντραποδωδέσταται B, ἀνδραπωδέσταται AP
9 τῶν πέντε om. BEK
10 τῶν θηρίων BEK: τῶν om. ceteri γαστριμαργότατα BEK Arm: γαστριμαργοῦντα ceteri (v)
11 ἐπτόηται C: πεπόνηται ceteri (et Arm)
12 εὐπορεῖται H1P τὰς ὀχείας BEK: τὰς om. ceteri ὀργᾷ coni. Mang. δὲ BEK
13 αἱ φιλόσοφοι HP ἡγεμόνες BEK βραχύτερα C, βραχύτερα F πως om. BEK
14 ὑπὸ] ἀπὸ A
15 μέχρις HP(v) κινήσει A
16 οὖν om. BE διότι corr. ex ὅτι K
17 τάξιν τετάχθω BEK Arm: ἐχέτω τάξιν ceteri; τετάχθω τάξιν coni. Mang.
18 ταύτην]τούτων G ἄλλων] ὅλων K ἀναπέφηνεν F 18.19 ἐπάνω—καὶ om. Flor. Laur. τιθεὶς HP πασῶν P, ἀπάντων BE
19 ἐπ᾿] ἐξ F ἱδρυσάμενος, τεκμήριον οἰκειότατον ψυχῆς· συμμεταβάλλει γὰρ ταῖς Flor. Laur. ψυχήν AF

3. 18—35,14 Flor. Laur. Nr. 25: τὴν ὅρασιν ὁ θεὸς—ἐχούσης.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 150

ed. Leopold Cohn

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