Philo Judaeus De Josepho 219

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[219] προσπεσόντες γὰρ ἀθρόοι τοῖς ἐκείνου γόνασιν ὡς κλοπῇ πάντες ἔνοχοι, ὃ μηδ’ εἰπεῖν θέμις ἐπ’ αὐτῶν, ἐδακρυρρόουν, ἱκέτευον, ἑαυτοὺς ἐξεδίδοσαν, ἑκούσιον
δουλείαν ὑπισχνοῦντο, δεσπότην προσηγόρευον ἐκεῖνον, προβλήτους, οἰκότριβας, ἀργυρωνήτους, οὐδὲν παραλείποντες τῶν οἰκετικῶν ὀνομάτων, ἀνεκάλουν ἑαυτούς.

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.) — 219 focus

[219] for falling altogether at his knees as if they were all liable to be punished for the theft, a wickedness too great to be mentioned, they all wept over him, and besought him, and gave themselves up to him, and offered to submit to voluntary slavery, and called him their master, speaking of themselves as foreign captives, as slaves, as bought with a price, and omitting no name whatever indicative of the most complete slavery;

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