Philo Judaeus De Josepho 129

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[129] τάχα μέντοι τάχα καὶ τῶν ἡλικιῶν ἑκάστη παραχωροῦσα τοῦ κράτους τῇ μεθ’ ἑαυτὴν προαποθνῄσκει, τῆς φύσεως ἡμᾶς ἀναδιδασκούσης ἡσυχῇ μὴ δεδιέναι
τὸν ἐπὶ πᾶσι θάνατον, ἐπειδὴ τοὺς προτέρους εὐμαρῶς ἠνέγκαμεν, τὸν βρέφους, τὸν παιδός, τὸν ἐφήβου, τὸν μειρακίου, τὸν νεανίου, τὸν

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.) — 129 focus

[129] Perhaps, also, every one of the different ages of life yields in vigour to the one which comes next to it, and so dies before its time, nature by these means teaching us not to fear the death which comes upon all men, inasmuch as we have found it easy to bear the previous deaths, the death that is of the infant, and that of the child, and that of the boy, and that of the youth, and that of the young man, and that of the full grown man, not one of whom exist any longer when old age has arrived.

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