Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 23

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[23] ὧν ἕνεκα συγκλεισάμενος οἴκοι τὰ πολλὰ καταμένει μόλις
τὰς κλισιάδας ὑπερβαίνων ἢ διὰ τοὺς ἐπιφοιτῶντας συνεχέστερον ἔξω πόλεως προελθὼν ἐν μοναγρίᾳ ποιεῖται τὰς διατριβὰς ἥδιον συμβιωταῖς χρώμενος τοῖς ἅπαντος τοῦ γένους ἀνθρώπων ἀρίστοις, ὧν τὰ μὲν σώματα διέλυσεν ὁ χρόνος, τὰς δ’ ἀρετὰς αἱ ἀπολειφθεῖσαι γραφαὶ ζωπυροῦσι διά τε ποιημάτων καὶ τῶν καταλογάδην συγγραμμάτων, οἷς
ἡ ψυχὴ πέφυκε βελτιοῦσθαι.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 23 focus

[23] On which account the good man shuts himself up, and remains for the most part at home, scarcely going ¹ over his threshold, or if he does go out, for the sake of avoiding the crowds who come to visit him, he generally goes out of the city, and makes his abode in some country place, living more pleasantly with such companions as are the most virtuous of all mankind, whose bodies, indeed, time has dissolved, but whose virtues the records which are left of them keep alive, in poems and in prose, histories by which the soul is naturally improved and led on to perfection.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 23

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