Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 20

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[20] λέξω δ’, ὡς ἂν οἷός τε ὦ, περὶ ἑκατέρων καὶ πρότερόν γε τῶν κεφαλαιωδεστέρων· ¹ ὧν εὐθέως ἄξιον θαυμάσαι τὸν ἀριθμὸν δεκάδι τῇ παντελείᾳ περατουμένων, ἣ πάσας μὲν ἀριθμῶν διαφορὰς ἀρτίων καὶ περιττῶν καὶ ἀρτιοπερίττων, ἀρτίων μὲν δυοῖν, περιττῶν δὲ τριῶν, ἀρτιοπερίττων δὲ πέντε, πάσας δὲ λόγων τῶν ἐν ἀριθμοῖς πολυπλασίων καὶ ἐπιμερῶν καὶ ὑποεπιμερῶν
περιέχει, πάσας δ’ ἀναλογίας,

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 20 focus

[20] and I will explain each kind as well as I can. 6 And first of all, I will speak of those which rather resemble heads of laws, of which in the first place one must at once admire the number, inasmuch as they are completed in the perfect number of the decade, which contains every variety of number, both those which are even, and those which are odd, and those which are even-odd; ¹ the even numbers being such as two, the odd numbers such as three, the even-odd such as five, it also comprehends all the varieties of the multiplication of numbers, and of those numbers which contain a whole number and a fraction, and of those which contain several fractional parts;

Notes on the current edition

De decalogo

1.
1 ἡμέρων oin. Arm ἵν᾿ M : ἵνα ceteri ἐὰν om. M
2 ἐν om. G δίψη Η (v) 3.
4 ἀνευρίσκωσιν ἀπαυτοματισθέντων transp. H (Turn.)
4 μάνα H 4.
5 προσόψιμα Η
5 pr. δὲ] τε Richt. ἀπ’ secludendum putavit Mang. ὀρτυγομήτρας codd. (cf. Exod. 16,13): ὀρτυγομητρῶν Mang. alt. δὲ] μὲν Η
6 τὸ om. M δὲ om. M
7 θαυμάζωσιν εἰ λόγια θεοῦ συμβέβηκεν εἶναι τοὺς νόμους M Arm : θαυμάζωσι Νεῖλον μηδ’ εἰ συμβέβηκεν εἶναι θεοῦ τοὺς νόμους ceteri (v) τοὺς νόμους corr. ex τοῖς νόμοις Η post νόμους add. ἀμφιγνοῶσιν mg. H2 (v)
9 ἀφθονίαν — εὖ ζῆν (10) om. M
10 ἀφορμὰς] ἀφθονίας Α
11 post ζῆν add. καὶ ὡς εἰκὸς Η et mg. P2 (v)
13 αἴτιαι corr. in αἰτίαι F περὶ om. M
14 οἶδεν ὁ θεὸς M: θεὸς οἶδε ceteri (v) δ’ ἅπερ M: δὲ ἃ cetori (Turn.)
16 τῶν νόμων] τοὺς νόμους M οὓς] τοὺς M
17 ἑαυτοῦ M: αὑτοῦ G, αὐτοῦ corr. in αὐτοῦ H, αὐτοῦ APF οὐ μόνον G οὓς] τοὺς M
18 τοῦ προφήτου APF μώσεως MAPFH, om. G ὃν] ὃς H ἐκ πάντων M: ἐξ ἀπάντων ceteri (v) ἱεροφάντην M: ὡς ἱεροφαντεῖν ceteri (v)
19 ἐπελέξατο M: εἵλετο ceteri (v) αὐτοπροσώπους Α
20 pr. καὶ om. Arm
22 περὶ MF: καὶ περὶ ceteri (v) post γε add. περὶ Arm

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