Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 20

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[20] τίνα ἄρα τρόπον ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν τὴν περὶ τῶν συμβεβηκότων ἀκοὴν δέξεται; τρισμακαρίῳ καὶ τρισευδαίμονι τὸν καθ’ ἡμᾶς βίον ἀβίωτον παρέσχησθε. τὸν πραθέντα τῆς δουλείας ἢ τοὺς πεπρακότας τῆς ὠμότητος οἰκτιεῖται; πολὺ μᾶλλον εὖ οἶδα ἡμᾶς,
ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι τὸ ἀδικεῖν χαλεπώτερον· τὸ μὲν γὰρ δυσὶ βοηθεῖται τοῖς μεγίστοις, ἐλέῳ καὶ ἐλπίδι, τὸ δ’ οὐδετέρου μετέχον ἅπασιν ἡττᾶται τοῖς κριταῖς. ἀλλὰ τί ταῦτα θρηνῶν ἀπηχῶ;

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.) — 20 focus

[20] In what manner now will our father receive the news of what has happened? You will now, as far as depends upon us, have made the life of him who has hitherto been wonderfully happy and fortunate, not worth living; which will he pity, the child who has been sold, for his slavery? or those who have sold him, for their inhumanity? I am sure he will pity us much the most; since to do wrong is a more terrible evil than to suffer wrong, for the one has for an alleviation two consolations of the greatest influence, hope and pity; but the other is destitute of both these mitigations, and is more unfortunate in the judgment of every one.

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 20

ed. Leopold Cohn

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