Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 104

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[104] μηδενὸς δὲ στοχασμοῖς εἰκόσι τἀληθὲς ἰχνηλατῆσαι δυναμένου, παρελθὼν ὁ ἀρχιοινοχόος φησίν· "ὦ δέσποτα, τὸν ἄνδρα ὃν ζητεῖς ἐλπίς ἐστιν εὑρήσειν· ἁμαρτόντας ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν
ἀρχισιτοποιὸν ἐκέλευσας εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον ἀπαχθῆναι, ἐν ᾧ τοῦ ἀρχιμαγείρου θεράπων ἦν Ἑβραῖος, ᾧτινι διηγησάμεθα ἐγώ τε κἀκεῖνος ὀνείρατα τὰ φανέντα ἡμῖν· ὁ δ’ οὕτως εὐθυβόλως καὶ εὐσκόπως διέκρινεν, ὡς ὅσα προεῖπεν ἑκατέρῳ συμβῆναι, τῷ μὲν ἣν ὑπέμεινε τιμωρίαν, ἐμοὶ δὲ τὸ σοῦ τυχεῖν ἵλεω καὶ εὐμενοῦς.“

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State, or on Joseph First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 104 focus

[104] and as none of them was able, by any probable conjectures, to trace out the truth, the chief butler came forward and said, "O master, there is a hope that you may find the man whom you are seeking; for when I and the chief baker had done evil against you you ordered us to be committed to prison; and in that prison there was a servant of the chief cook, a Hebrew, to whom both the chief baker and I related some dreams which had appeared to us, and he answered them with such felicity and accuracy of interpretation, that all that he foretold to either of us came to pass, the punishment to the chief baker, which was appointed to him, and I found you favourable and merciful to me."

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 104

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