Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 205

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[205] τοιούτους ἐπαίνους ἠρέμα συνειρόντων, τράπεζαι μὲν οὐ σφόδρα πολυτελεῖς ¹ εἰσκομίζονται, διὰ τὸν λιμὸν οὐκ ἀξιώσαντος τοῦ ξενοδόχου ταῖς ἑτέρων ἀτυχίαις ἐντρυφᾶν· αὐτοὶ δ’ ἅτε σύνεσιν ἀκριβεῖς καὶ τοῦτ’ εἰς τὰ ἐγκώμια παρελάμβανον, ὡς ἀπειροκαλίαν, πρᾶγμα ἐπίφθονον, ἀπέστραπται, λέγοντες· ὡς καὶ τὸ τοῦ συναλγοῦντος τοῖς δεομένοις καὶ τὸ τοῦ ἑστιάτορος σχῆμα
διασῴζει μεθόριον ἀμφοῖν τιθεὶς αὑτὸν καὶ τὴν ἐν ἑκατέρῳ μέμψιν ἐκφεύγων.

De Josepho. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 205 focus

[205] While they were praising the arrangements of the feast in this quiet way, tables are brought indeed, of no great costliness or luxury, as, by reason of the famine, their host did not think it proper to revel too much amid the distresses of others; and they, like men of sense and understanding, praised this part of his conduct also, because he had thus avoided an unseemly magnificence, which is a thing calculated to provoke envy, saying that he was maintaining the character at the same time of one who sympathised with the needy, and also of a liberal entertainer, placing himself between the two, and avoiding all cause for blaming him in either particular.

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De Josepho

1.
1 αὑτῶν BVAH2: αὐτῶν ceteri 1.
2 ζῆ καὶ C: om. ceteri
2 ὑγιαίνοι H θεοφιλέστατε Turn., θεοφιλέστατα Cotelier Monum. Eccl. II 568)
3 ἀλλὰ (om. ἤδη) BEKMV
4 καταφανῆ A ἀποστρέφεται coni. Mang. coll. 98,14. 15
5 προφάσει CVBEKM(v)
6 καιρὸς om. Η τινι om. Α
8 ἑστιᾷ CVBEKM
9 ἀντὶ τοῦ νεωτάτου om. AO κατασχὼν F
10 δοκίμων] γνωρίμων Α
11 ἡγούμενοι F, ἡγημένου Μ post ἡγουμένου add. παρασαλεύειν H2(v) παριδεῖν Α mg. P2: om. ceteri
12 ταῦτ’ AO τινί corr. in λύειν V2, τινί om. K, λύειν ss. Κ2; κοινῇ coni. Mang. ἔνθα] ἐν αἷς F2 ἀηδιῶν scripsi: ἀνδρῶν GP1, ἀηδῶν ceteri ἐς ἧς F
13 προστάξοντος G
14 συμποτικῶν Α εἰ] οἱ GHP, εἰ οἱ AO (Mang.)
15 post Αἰγύπτιοι add. ὅπως Η ζηλωταὶ om. Α τάξεων AOFGHP τε CK: om. ceteri πεφορτικότες M
17 τῆς χώρας om. ΗΡ1
18 ἐχούσης K, ἐχούσης AO ἀγούσης post ἀμαθέστερον (17) transp. CV (Mang.) κοινῆς M
20 κατορθοῦν V1 καὶ V: καὶ ἐν CV1, κἀν ccteri (v)
21 πεδιαῖς M, παιδιαῖς H, παιδίοις ΑOFGP ἱλαρώτατον AO
22 ἄγαν om. AO συμπότην] δεσπότην K
23 εἰ καὶ κομίζονται F

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