Philo Judaeus De Josepho 2

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[2] ἤρξατο μέντοι συγκροτεῖσθαι περὶ ἔτη γεγονὼς ἑπτακαίδεκα τοῖς κατὰ ποιμενικὴν θεωρήμασιν, ἃ συνᾴδει τοῖς περὶ
πόλιν· ὅθεν οἶμαι καὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν γένος "ποιμένας λαῶν“ τοὺς βασιλεῖς εἴωθεν ὀνομάζειν· ὁ γὰρ τὴν ποιμενικὴν κατωρθωκὼς ἄριστος ἂν εἴη καὶ βασιλεύς, τῆς καλλίστης ζῴων ἀγέλης, ἀνθρώπων, τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ἐν ταῖς ἐλάττονος σπουδῆς ἀξίαις ἀναδιδαχθείς·

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.) — 2 focus

[2] Now, this man began from the time he was seventeen years of age to be occupied with the consideration of the business of a shepherd, which corresponds to political business. On which account I think it is that the race of poets has been accustomed to call kings the shepherds of the people; for he who is skilful in the business of a shepherd will probably be also a most excellent king, having derived instruction in those matters which are deserving of inferior attention here to superintend a flock of those most excellent of all animals, namely, of men.

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