Philo Judaeus De Josepho 260

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[260] ἡνίκα γοῦν ὁ ἕβδομος ἐνιαυτὸς τῆς ἐνδείας ἐνέστη, μεταπεμψάμενος τοὺς γεωργοὺς — ἤδη γὰρ p. 78 M. τῆς εὐφορίας καὶ εὐθηνίας ἐλπὶς ἦν — ἐδίδου κριθάς τε καὶ πυροὺς εἰς σπέρματα
φροντίσας τοῦ μηδένα νοσφίσασθαι καταθεῖναί τε εἰς τὰς ἀρούρας ἃ ἔλαβεν, ὀπτῆρας καὶ ἐφόρους ἐπιλέξας ἀριστίνδην, οἳ τὴν σπορὰν παραφυλάξουσι.

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.) — 260 focus

[260] therefore, when the seventh year of the scarcity arrived, he sent for the farmers (for there was now a prospect of fertility and abundance), and gave them barley and wheat for seed, taking care that no one should appropriate what he gave for other purposes, but should sow what he received in the fields, to which end he selected men of honesty and virtues as overseers and superintendents, who were to take care that the sowing was properly performed.

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