Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 249

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[249] ἔτι δὲ πρὸς τούτοις ἐρρύη πολὺς ἔπαινος ἰσότητος αὐτοῦ καὶ δεξιότητος· τὰς γὰρ τῶν ἄλλων ἀλαζονείας καὶ ἀπαιδευσίας ἡγεμόνων εἰδότες ἐθαύμαζον τὸ ἀνεπίφαντον
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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.) — 249 focus

[249] Moreover in addition to all this, great praise was bestowed on his affability and courtesy; for being acquainted with the insolence and rudeness of other governors, they marvelled at the absence of pretence and display which they saw in him, and they admired his kindness too, who, though the moment that he beheld them after their first journey he might have put them to death, or on the last occasion either, merely by refusing to supply them with food when oppressed with hunger, was not content with not punishing them, but even gave them necessary food gratuitously as though they had been persons worthy of favour, ordering the price they had paid to be restored to them:

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De Josepho

1.
1 ταῦτ’ Α μηκέτ’ AF ἔχητε V
5 πανταχόσε] πανταχόθεν κατὰ πολὺ HP(v) κατὰ] μετὰ M
6 ἀπαύστως AOFGHP: ἀδιαστάτως CVBEKM; fort. scribendum ἀπαύστως καὶ ἀδιαστάτως
8 δὲ CV τὸν om. C ἀναφέροντος KV2, corr. ex ἀναφέροντες E: ἀναφέροντες ceteri 8.
9 τῶν κατορθουμένων τὰ τέλη transp. Α
9 ἀρχαῖς om. H1P
10 μὴ Κ: om. ceteri δυσχεράναντος VBEM, δυσχεραίναντος (sic) Κ: δυσχεράναντας C, δυσχεράναντες GHP, δυσχεραίνοντες AOF
11 ἀνομαλίαις C 11.
12 οὐδὲν εἶπε βλάσφημον transp. AO
12 οὔτε C
13 ὑπὸ C ἐξελάλησέ τι om. Ο ἀπορρήτων] ἀβουλήτων ΑΟ
15 ἀτυχίας] τύχας AO ἀναμετρεῖσθαι corr. ex —εἷται Κ ἀπεγύμνου ΑΟ ἀλλ’ ὡς] ἄλλως AOGH1P, ἄλλοις τε F, ἀλόγως H2 μηδὲν εἰδὼς om. AOFGHP
16 ἀλλὰ FG οὐδὲ V συνέκρινεν V
17 ἐφθέγξατό τι CK: τι φυλάξασθαι F, τι φθέγξασθαι ceteri
18 ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ BKM οὐδὲ C τοῦ βασιλέως F
20 εἶναι om. Α
21 ἥκιστα C
22 ὑπομεμενηκὼς ἀνηκέστους transp. AO
23 αὐτῆς F
24 εἰδότες ἡγεμόνων trausp. ΒΕΚM ἀνέπαφον AOFGHP
25 ὡς om. Ο Philonis opera vol. IV 8

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 249

ed. Leopold Cohn

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