Philo Judaeus De Josepho 160

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[160] λέγεται γοῦν μηδέποτε κοινὴ νόσος κατασκῆψαι τοσαύτη, καθάπερ ἣν ἰατρῶν παῖδες ὀνομάζουσιν ἑρπῆνα· καὶ γὰρ αὕτη πᾶσι τοῖς μέρεσιν ἐπιφοιτῶσα
τὴν κοινωνίαν τῶν ἡλκωμένων σωμάτων ὅλην δι’ ὅλων στοιχηδὸν πυρὸς τρόπον ἐπινέμεται.

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.) — 160 focus

[160] Accordingly, it is said that no general pestilence ever extended so widely, not even that which the sons of the physicians call "the creeping pestilence;" for that also attacks all parts at once, and proceeding onwards rapidly like fire, utterly and completely devours the whole mass of the ulcerated body.

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