Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 115

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[115] ἐὰν δέ τις τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἀποπληρωθεὶς
καὶ διακορὴς γενόμενος μηκέτι κοινωνεῖν ὁμιλίας ἀξιοῖ τῆς πρὸς τὴν αἰχμάλωτον, οὐ ζημιοῖ μᾶλλον αὐτὸν ἢ νουθετεῖ καὶ σωφρονίζει πρὸς βελτίωσιν ἠθῶν· κελεύει γὰρ μήτε πιπράσκειν μήτ’ ἔτι δούλην ἔχειν, ἀλλὰ χαρίζεσθαι μὲν ἐλευθερίαν αὐτῇ, χαρίζεσθαι δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας ἀπαλλαγὴν ἀδεᾶ, ὡς μὴ γυναικὸς ἑτέρας ἐπεισελθούσης ἐξ ἔριδος,
οἷα φιλεῖ, κατὰ ζηλοτυπίαν πάθῃ τι τῶν ἀνηκέστων, ἅμα καὶ τοῦ δεσπότου καινοτέροις φίλτροις ὑπηγμένου καὶ τῶν παλαιοτέρων ἀλογοῦντος.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Virtutibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 5. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1906.)

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On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 115 focus

[115] But if any one, being filled with desire, and being afterwards sated with enjoyment, no longer chooses to continue his cohabitation with his captive, then the lawgiver does not so much punish him as admonish him and correct him, with a view to the improvement of his disposition, for he commands him in such a case not to sell her, ¹ nor to retain her any longer as a slave, but to give her liberty freely, and to allow her to depart from his house with impunity, in order that she may not be exposed to some intolerable suffering when any other woman is introduced into the house, by their both quarrelling, as is often the case, out of jealousy, the master being at the same time brought into subjection to more recent charms, and despising those by which he was previously allured.

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De virtutibus

1.
1 βσανίζει SC
2 AG 1: βασανίζειν ceteri
2 μετέχει] μέχρι H
1 P τῆς] τε F καθαρωτέρας S : καθαρωτάτης ceteri (v) εἰδέας S ἀνακεκραμένος λογισμῶ G 1 λογισμός] λογισμοῖς G
2 3 πεδήσῃ F ἐασάμενος A, αὐτὴν ἐάσας transp. CG 2 ἐξεργάσασθαι S: ἐργάσασθαι ceteri (v)
4 ἐπισχών coni. Mang. ἐλεεῖ S: ἐλεεῖν CG 2, ἐλθεῖν FHP, εἰς λήθην ἐλθεῖν Α, om. in lac. G
1 6 ἁρμοζόμενοι σύνοδον S: σύνοδον ἁρμοζομένη F, σύνοδον ἁρμοζομένην ceteri (Tnrn.) τοῦ κουριδίου S: τοῦ om. ceteri (Turn.) στερομένη CG 2: στερουμένη ceteri (v)
7 μελλήσει λαβεῖν SCG 2: λαβεῖν μελλήσει G
1 HP (v), λαβεῖν μελήσει AF ταῦτ’ SA: ταῦτα ceteri ἐπανατειναμένους G
2 H τὸν S: ἔτι C (v), om. Α, ἐπὶ ceteri
8 pr. κὰν] καὶ S ἐπιτηδεύει SF τὴν om. Α
9 ἡμερώτερον AG
1 HP: ἡμερώτερος SCG
2 F (v) ᾖ] ἢ G
2 δέδειεν S: δέδοικεν ceteri (v) ἀποπληρωθῆς S (-θεὶς scripsi): πληρωθῇ F, πληρωθεὶς ceteri (v)
10 διακορὴς] διάκορος S, ἀκορὴς G 2, ἀκορῆς C, corr. C
2 τὴν] τὸν Turn.
11 μᾶλλον SHP: μάλιστα ceteri (Turn.) αὐτὸν om. S
12 ἠθῶν SG
1 G 2: ἐθῶν ceteri (Turn.) γάρ] δέ Α μήτε ἔτι C
13 αὐτῇ] ἑαυτῇ G
2 14 οἰκίας] οἰκετίας coni. Mang. ἀδεᾶ, ὡς S: ἀδεῶς ceteri (Turn.)
15 πάθει S
16 καιντέροις] καὶ νεωτέροις A ὑπιγμἐνου S 1, i in εἰ corr. S
2 καὶ—ἀλογοῦντος om. C, om. in lac. G
1 τῶν παλαιοτέρων ἀλογοῦντος S: τῶν παλαιοτέρων G 2, τῶν παλαιτέρων HP, τοῖς παλαιοτέροις A, καταφρονοτος τῶν παλαιτέρων F mg H (v)

2.
9 sqq. Deul.;21,14. cf. loseph. Am. lud. IV §259.
9 sqq. pergit Clem. Alex. l. l. ἔπειτα ἐάν τις τῆς ἐπιθυμίας κατάκορος γενόμενος μηκέτι κοινωνεῖν τῇ αἰχμαλώτῳ καταξιώσῃ, μηδέ πιπράσκειν ταύτην ἐξεῖναι διατάττεται, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἔτι θεράπαιναν ἔχειν’ ἐλευθέραν δὲ εἶναι καὶ τῆς οἰκετείας ἀπαλλάττεσθαι βούλεται, ὡς μὴ γυναικὸς ἑτέρας ἐπεισελθούσης πατηθῇ τι τῶν κατὰ ζηλοτυπίαν ἀνηκέστων.

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