Philo Judaeus De Josepho 60

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[60] ὅθεν καὶ — τὸ παραλογώτατον — γυνὴ τῷ εὐνούχῳ τούτῳ συνοικεῖ· μνᾶται γὰρ ὄχλος ἐπιθυμίαν, ὥσπερ
ἀνὴρ γυναῖκα, δι’ ἧς ἕκαστα καὶ λέγει καὶ πράττει σύμβουλον αὐτὴν ποιούμενος ἁπάντων ῥητῶν καὶ ἀπορρήτων μικρῶν τε αὖ καὶ μεγάλων, ἥκιστα προσέχειν εἰωθὼς τοῖς ἐκ λογισμοῦ.

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.) — 60 focus

[60] On which account (though it seems a most unnatural thing), a wife is represented as cohabiting with this eunuch; for the multitudes court desire, as a man courts a woman; for the sake of which it says and does everything, making it its counsellor in everything which should and should not be spoken, trifling or important, being not at all accustomed to attend to considerations of calm wisdom;

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