Philo Judaeus De Josepho 24

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[24] ἀλλ’ εἰ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ξένης, εἶπον ἄν· τὸ οἰκεῖον ὄφλημα τῆς
φύσεως ἀπολαβούσης, ὦ οὗτος, μὴ κατήφει· πρὸς ζῶντας αἱ πατρίδες, ἀποθανόντων δὲ πᾶσα γῆ τάφος· ὠκύμορος οὐδεὶς ἢ πάντες ἄνθρωποι, καὶ γὰρ ὁ μακροβιώτατος ὀλιγοχρόνιος ἀντεξεταζόμενος αἰῶνι.

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.) — 24 focus

[24] "Again, even if you had died in a foreign land, I should have said, nature has claimed what was due to, and what belonged to her; and therefore, O my mind, be not cast down; for living men have indeed their separate countries, but the whole earth is the grave of the dead; and all men are destined to a speedy death; for even the longest lived man is but short lived if compared with eternity;

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