Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 151

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[151] εὔηθες ἴσως μακρηγορεῖν
ἐστι περὶ τῶν οὕτως ἐμφανῶν, ἃ τίς ἀνὴρ ἢ πόλις ἀγνοεῖ καθ’ ἑκάστην οὐχ ἡμέραν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὥραν ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν ἔλεγχον ἐναργῆ παριστάντα; χρημάτων ἔρως ἢ γυναικὸς ἢ δόξης ἤ τινος ἄλλου τῶν ἡδονὴν ἀπεργαζομένων ἀρά γε μικρῶν καὶ τῶν τυχόντων αἴτιος γίνεται κακῶν;

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.) — 151 focus

[151] Perhaps it is a piece of folly to make a long speech upon matters which are so manifest, as to which there is no individual and no city that is ignorant, that they are not only every day, but even every hour, as one may say, supplying a visible proof of the truth of my assertion. Is the love of money, or of women, or of glory, or of any one of the other efficient causes of pleasure, the origin of slight and ordinary evils?

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