Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 34

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[34] ἀνθρώπων μὲν γὰρ αἱ φωναὶ πρὸς μήκιστον ἀποτεινόμεναι πεφύκασιν ἐξασθενεῖν, ὡς ἀριδήλους τοῖς
μακρὰν ἀφεστηκόσι μὴ γίνεσθαι τὰς ἀντιλήψεις ταῖς ἐπεκτάσεσιν ἐκ τοῦ κατ’ ὀλίγον ἀμαυρουμένας, ἐπειδὴ καὶ τὰ ὄργανα φθαρτά·

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.) — 34 focus

[34] For the voices of men, when they are spread over a very long distance, do naturally become weaker and weaker, so that those who are at a distance from them cannot arrive at a clear comprehension of them, but their understanding is gradually dimmed by the extension of the sound over a larger space, since the organs also by which it is extended are perishable.

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