Philo Judaeus De Josepho 59

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[59] τίς οὖν ἡ πρὸς ὄχλον εὐνούχων ὁμοιότης; ὅτι ἄγονός ἐστι σοφίας δοκῶν
ἐπιτηδεύειν ἀρετήν· ὅταν γὰρ μιγάδων καὶ συγκλύδων πλῆθος ἀνθρώπων εἰς ταὐτὸν συνέλθῃ, λέγει μὲν τὰ δέοντα, φρονεῖ δὲ καὶ πράττει τἀναντία, τὰ νόθα πρὸ τῶν γνησίων ἀποδεχόμενος, ἕνεκα τοῦ δόξης μὲν ἡττᾶσθαι, τὸ δ’ ἀληθείᾳ καλὸν μὴ ἐπιτηδεύειν.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] What, then, is the resemblance of eunuchs to the multitude? That the multitude too is unable to generate wisdom, but that it studies virtue; for when a multitude of men, brought promiscuously together from all quarters and of different races, meets in the same place, what is said indeed may be proper and becoming, but what is intended and what is done is quite the contrary; since the multitude embraces what is spurious in preference to what is genuine, because it is carried away by false opinion, and has not studied what is truly honourable.

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