Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 4

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[4] ἐν πόλεσιν οὖν καὶ ὁ πάντων ἐπιβουλότατος φύεται τῦφος, ὅν τινες τεθήπασι καὶ προσκυνοῦσι τὰς κενὰς δόξας ¹² σεμνοποιοῦντες διὰ χρυσῶν στεφάνων καὶ ἁλουργίδων καὶ πλήθους θεραπόντων καὶ ὀχημάτων, ἐφ’ ὧν οἱ λεγόμενοι μακάριοι καὶ εὐδαίμονες μετέωροι φέρονται, τοτὲ μὲν ὀρεῖς ἢ ἵππους καταζευγνύντες τοτὲ δὲ καὶ ἀνθρώπους, οἳ τὰ φορεῖα κατὰ τῶν αὐχένων ἀχθοφοροῦσι τὴν ψυχὴν

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.)

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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.) — 4 focus

[4] from whence also that most designing of all things, namely pride, is implanted, which some persons admire and worship, dignifying and making much of vain opinions, with golden crowns and purple robes, and numbers of servants and chariots, on which those men who are looked upon as fortunate and happy are borne aloft, sometimes harnessing mules or horses to their chariots, and sometimes even men, who bear their burdens on their necks, through the excess of the insolence of their masters, weighed down in soul even before they faint in body.

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De decalogo

1.
1 —
3 Φίλωνος περὶ τῶν δέκα λογίων λόγων scripsi), οἳ κεφάλαια νόμων εἰσί G, φίλωνος ἰουδαίου περὶ τῶν δέκα λογίων, ἃ κεφάλαια νόμων εἰσίν F, περὶ τῶν δέκα λογίων, ἆ κεφάλαια νόμων εἰσίν Η, φίλωνος ἰουδαίου εἰς τὴν (sic) δεκάλογον μώσεως AP, φίλωνος περὶ νόμων ἰδέας M, tit. om. Arm
4 μωϋσέα GH: μωυσῆν M, μωσέα ceteri
6 ἐν τῆ προτέρᾳ συντάξει Arm προτέραις] ἡμετέραις M κατὰ τὸ ἀκόλουθον Arm ut vid.
8 πρὸς διάνοιαν] δι’ ὑπονοιῶν coni. Mang.
9 (??) φιλομαθοῦς ἀ eras.) F ἐπιστάσεως coni. Wendl. ᾖ] ἡ Arm
10 τί δή ποτε] διὰ τί Η (v)
12 εἰσι κακῶν transp. F
14 παρημερευόντων M τὰ ἀληθῆ M
15 εἰκότων] εἰκαιοτέρων M κατεψεύσατο Η (Turn.) IG post ἀπάτην interpungit M: post πόλεσιν ceteri οὖν M: οὖ ceteri, ἀφ’ οὗ Arrn φύεται] ϋιωται (sic) M
17 τὰς κενὰς δόξας] τοὺς κενοδόξους coni. Mang.

2.
11 — 270,5 Vindob. liist. gr.
67 fol. 56r Φίλωνος ἰουδαίου: αἱ πολλαὶ τῶν πόλεων ἐκπιεζόμενοι.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 4

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