Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 115

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[115] εἶτ’ οὐκ αἰσχρῶν ἐστιν αἴσχιστον, ἐν χαρίτων
ἀμοιβαῖς ἄνθρωπον ἡττηθῆναι κυνός, τοῦ θηρίων θρασυτάτου τὸ ἡμερώτατον ζῷον; ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ τοῖς χερσαίοις ἀναδιδασκόμεθα, πρὸς τὴν πτηνὴν καὶ ἀεροπόρον μετίωμεν φύσιν ἃ χρὴ παρ’ αὐτῆς μαθησόμενοι.

De Decalogo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Decalogo (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor.Berlin: Reimer, 1902.)

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Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads of the Law First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 115 focus

[115] Is it not then the most shameful of all shameful things for a man, in respect of the requital of favours, to be left behind by a dog, for that being, which of all others is the most gentle, to be outrun by the most audacious of beasts? But if we will not be taught by the land animals, let us go across to the nature of the winged birds which traverse the air, and learn what we have need of from them.

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