Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 254

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[254] ἡ δὲ χαρὰ καὶ φόβον εὐθὺς ἐγέννησε
τῇ ψυχῇ περὶ τῆς τῶν πατρίων ἐκδιαιτήσεως· ᾔδει γὰρ καὶ νεότητα εὐόλισθον φύσει καὶ ξενιτείας τὴν εἰς τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν ἐκεχειρίαν καὶ ¹² μάλιστα τῆς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ χώρας τυφλωττούσης περὶ τὸν ἀληθῆ θεὸν ἕνεκα p. 77 M. τοῦ γενητὰ καὶ θνητὰ θεοπλαστεῖν καὶ προσέτι πλούτου καὶ δόξης ἐπιθέσεις ὀλιγόφροσι διανοίαις ἐπιτίθενται καὶ διότι ἀπολειφθείς, μηδενὸς τῶν ἐκ τῆς πατρῴας οἰκίας συνεξεληλυθότος σωφρονιστοῦ,
μόνος ὢν καὶ ἔρημος διδασκάλων ἀγαθῶν ἕτοιμος ἔσται πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὀθνείων μεταβολήν.

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.) — 254 focus

[254] but his joy immediately begat fear again in his soul, respecting his departure from his national laws and customs; for he knew that youth is by nature prone to fall, and that in foreign nations there is great indulgence given to error; and especially in the country of Egypt, a land in a state of utter blindness respecting the true God, in consequence of their making created and mortal things into gods. Moreover, the addition of riches and glory is a snare to weak minds, and he also recollected that he had been left to himself, as no one had gone forth out of his father’s house with him to keep him in the right way, but he had been left solitary and destitute of all good instructions, and might therefore be supposed to be ready to change and adopt their foreign customs.

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De Josepho

1.
1 μὴ om. P1, ss. P2
2 τῳ] τὸ GHP δωρεᾶς O
3 τὰ ἐπιτήδεια CV αὐτοῖς V παραδοθῆναι VBEM
4 πράξεως Α εἰσάπαν ΑΚ ὥστ’ HP, ὡς δ’ F
5 πρώτων V τῶν om. CVBEKM G εὐηγγελίζοντο] ἐδήλουν HP(v)
8 εὐφόρησεν CVBKMH2: ηὐφόρησεν ceteri εὐθηνίαν] εὐπορίαν Κ μετέβαλεν CG
9 δὲ CV pr. καὶ om. Κ ἡ om. CBEKMA γενεὰ] συγγένεια coni. Mang.
10 μεταστῆναι CVGHP1 πανοικὶ —εὶ C) μεταστῆναι transp. CV πανοικεὶ CHP(v)
11 ἀπήνας] ἀπήγαγον γον in ras.) F 11.
12 ἁμάξας M, ἀμάξας P
12 τὰ ἐπιτήδεια CVBEM
13 μετὰ CVHP
15 μείζω AO κἄν VMK2F2: καὶ corr. ex κἄν Β, καὶ ceteri
16 ἥ γε CM, ἥ τε E, ἥ τε (sed τε del.) Β: ἡ (om. γε) ceteri συνιδεῖν O 16.
17 συναινεῖν οὐκ ἐπέτρεπεν CV: οὐκ ἐπέτρεπε συναινεῖν ceteri
17 ἐπέτρεψε Α δ’ Α τῶ τοιούτω A
19 ὕμνει VBEKM: ὑμνεῖ ceteri ἐλλελοιπέναι CVBEKM
20 καὶ om. AOFHP
21 ἐκδιαιτήσεως VK: ἐπιζητήσεως Α, ἐκζητήσεως ceteri 21.
22 καὶ—φύσει] τὸ τῆς νεωτάτης εὐόλισθον φύσεως C; τὸ τῆς νεότητος εὐόλισθον φύσει conicio
22 ξενιτείαν V2K2 τῆς Α ἐκεχειρίαν CBEKMO: ἐκκεχειρίαν ceteri

2.
6 Thom. Mag. Ecl. 252,
11 R. . . . καὶ ξένισις ἡ ξενοδοκία . . . καὶ ξενία τὸ αὐτό, ὡς Φίλων ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἰωσήφ: τῶν εἰς τὴν ξενίαν ἡκόντων ἀδελφῶν.

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 254

ed. Leopold Cohn

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