De Decalogo. Philo Judaeus. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023.
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Current edition First1KGreek
Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads of the Law (English) (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.)
Editions (1)
De Decalogo First1KGreek (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor.Berlin: Reimer, 1902.) — 56 focus
[56] τόν τε οὐρανὸν εἰς ἡμισφαίρια τῷ λόγῳ
διχῇ διανείμαντες, τὸ μὲν ὑπὲρ γῆς, τὸ δ’ ὑπὸ γῆς, Διοσκόρους ἐκάλεσαν τὸ περὶ τῆς ἑτερημέρου ζωῆς αὐτῶν προστερατευσάμενοι διήγημα.
διχῇ διανείμαντες, τὸ μὲν ὑπὲρ γῆς, τὸ δ’ ὑπὸ γῆς, Διοσκόρους ἐκάλεσαν τὸ περὶ τῆς ἑτερημέρου ζωῆς αὐτῶν προστερατευσάμενοι διήγημα.
Notes on the current edition
Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
1.
Διὸς κοῦροι. Sons of Jupiter, i.e, Castor and Pollux. The Gemini or Twins of the Zodiac. The story of their living and dying on alternate days is alluded to by
Virgil, Aen. vi. 121
, where Aeneas says,
Si fratrem Pollux alterna morte redemit
Itque reditque viam toties.
Or, as it is translated by Dryden,
If Pollux, off’ring his alternate life,
Could free his brother; and can daily go
By turns aloft, by turns descend below.
2.
Διὸς κοῦροι. Sons of Jupiter, i.e, Castor and Pollux. The Gemini or Twins of the Zodiac. The story of their living and dying on alternate days is alluded to by Virgil, Aen. vi. 121, where Aeneas ways,
Or, as it is translated by Dryden,
Si fratrem Pollux alterna morte redemit
Itque reditque viam toties.
"If Pollux, off’ring his alternate life,
Could free his brother; and can daily go
By turns aloft, by turns descend below."