Philo Judaeus De Josepho 45

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[45] σὺ δ’ ἐπιδαψιλευομένη καὶ τριττὸν προστίθης μοι μίασμα κελεύουσα μὴ μοιχεύειν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ δέσποιναν καὶ δεσπότου γυναῖκα
διαφθείρειν· εἰ μὴ ἄρα τούτου χάριν παρῆλθον εἰς τὴν ὑμετέραν οἰκίαν, ἵν’ ἀποστὰς τῶν ὑπηρεσιῶν, ἃς δεῖ θεράποντα παρέχειν, μεθύω καὶ ἐμπαροινῶ ταῖς ἐλπίσι τοῦ πριαμένου νοθεύων αὐτοῦ γάμον, οἰκίαν, συγγένειαν.

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.) — 45 focus

[45] But you, pressing me thus to load myself with guilt, would add even a third pollution in my case, since you bid me not merely commit adultery, but also to violate my mistress and my master’s wife, unless, indeed, this is to be looked upon as the reason for which I entered your house, that I might neglect the duties which a servant ought to perform, and get drunk, and become intoxicated with hopes fit for my master who has bought me, polluting his marriage, and his house and his family.

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