Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 47

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[47] ὁ μὲν δεσπότης αἰχμάλωτον ὄντα με καὶ ξένον ταῖς εὐεργεσίαις ἐλεύθερον καὶ ἀστὸν τὸ γοῦν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἧκον μέρος ἀπειργάσατο, ἐγὼ δ’ ὁ δοῦλος ὡς ξένῳ καὶ αἰχμαλώτῳ
προσενεχθήσομαι τῷ δεσπότῃ; τίνι ψυχῇ παραδεξάμενος τὸ ἀνοσιούργημα τοῦτο; προσβλέψω δὲ τίσιν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁ σιδηροῦς ἐγώ; τὸ συνειδὸς ἐλλαμβανόμενον ὀρθοῖς ὄμμασιν οὐκ ἐάσει προσβλέπειν, κἂν δυνηθῶ λανθάνειν· λήσομαι δ’ οὐδαμῶς· εἰσὶ γὰρ ἐξετασταὶ μυρίοι τῶν λάθρα δρωμένων, οἷς οὐ θέμις ἡσυχάζειν.

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.) — 47 focus

[47] He, being my master, has made me, who was a captive and a slave, a free man and a citizen by his great goodness, as far at least as depended on him; and shall I, who am a slave, compare myself to my master as if he were a stranger and a captive? And with what disposition can I commit this unholy action? and with what face can I be impudent enough to look upon him? The consciousness of guilt which I shall have contracted will not suffer me to look him in the face, even if I should be able to be undiscovered, but in fact I shall never escape detection, for there are innumerable witnesses of all the things which are done privily who may not be silent.

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 47

ed. Leopold Cohn

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