Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 258

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[258] 43 Ὁ δὲ νεανίας τοσαύτῃ πίστεως ἐχρήσατο ὑπερβολῇ, ὥστε τῶν καιρῶν καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων εἰς ἀργυρισμὸν παρεχόντων πλείστας ὅσας ἀφορμάς, δυνηθεὶς δι’ ὀλίγου πλουσιώτατας τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸν
γενέσθαι, τὸν γνήσιον ὡς ἀληθῶς πρὸ τοῦ νόθου πλοῦτον καὶ τὸν βλέποντα πρὸ τοῦ τυφλοῦ θαυμάσας ἅπαντα τὸν ἄργυρον καὶ χρυσόν, ὅσον ἐκ τῆς τιμῆς ἤθροισε τοῦ σίτου, ἐν τοῖς βασιλέως ἐθησαυρίζετο ταμιείοις οὐδεμίαν δραχμὴν νοσφισάμενος, ἀλλὰ μόναις ἀρκεσθεὶς ταῖς δωρεαῖς, αἷς ἀμειβόμενος ἐκεῖνος ἀντεχαρίζετο.

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.) — 258 focus

And the young man, Joseph, displayed such excessive good faith and honesty in all his dealings, that though the time and the circumstances of the time gave him innumerable opportunities of making money, so that he might, in a short period, have become the richest man of that age or kingdom, he still so truly honoured genuine riches before illegitimate wealth, and the treasure which sees rather than that which is blind, that he stored up all the silver and gold which he collected as the price of the corn in the king’s treasury, not appropriating a single drachm of it to his own use, but being satisfied with nothing beyond the gifts which the king bestowed on him voluntarily, in acknowledgment of his services.

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 258

ed. Leopold Cohn

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