Philo Judaeus De Josepho 112

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[112] συγκομίζειν δὲ τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῖς
δράγμασι μήτε ἀλοῶντας μήτε συνόλως καθαίροντας, τεττάρων ἕνεκα· ἑνὸς μὲν τοῦ σκέπῃ χρώμενον πρὸς πλείω χρόνον διαμένειν ἀδιάφθορον· ἑτέρου δὲ τοῦ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν γίνεσθαι τῆς εὐθηνίας ὑπόμνησιν, ἀλοώντων καὶ λικμώντων· ἡ γὰρ μίμησις τῶν πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἀγαθῶν δευτέραν ἔμελλεν ἡδονὴν ἀπεργάζεσθαι·

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.) — 112 focus

[112] and it will be well to bring together the crop with the sheaves, not thrashing it out, nor winnowing, nor sifting it at all, for four reasons. First of all, because if it is thus protected by the straw it will remain uninjured a longer time; secondly, in order that every year the people may be reminded of the former period of plenty while they are threshing and winnowing; for the imitation of the former real blessings is calculated to produce a second pleasure;

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