Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 126

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[126] κελεύει γὰρ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέροις ἀγέλαις, κατά τε ποίμνας καὶ αἰπόλια καὶ βουκόλια, τῆς παραχρῆμα τῶν γεννωμένων ἀπολαύσεως
ἀπέχεσθαι, μήτε πρὸς ἐδωδὴν μήτε ἐπὶ προφάσει θυσιῶν λαμβάνοντας. ὠμῆς γὰρ ὑπέλαβεν εἶναι ψυχῆς, ἐφεδρεύειν ἀποκυϊσκομένοις εἰς ἀνυπέρθετον διάζευξιν ἐγγόνων τε αὖ καὶ μητέρων ἕνεκα γαστρὸς ἡδονῆς, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀηδίας ἐκτόπου τινὸς [ψυχῆς] καὶ παρηλλαγμένης.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 126 focus

[126] for in the case of domestic animals, with reference to flocks of sheep, and of goats, and herds of oxen, he commands the people to abstain from using of those animals which are just born, or from taking them either for food or under pretence of sacrificing them. ¹ For he looked upon it as a proof of a cruel disposition to plot against such creatures the moment they are born, so as to cause an immediate separation between the offspring and the mother, for the sake of the pleasures of the belly, or rather on account of some absurd and preposterous unpleasantness which the soul fancies.

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 126

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