Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 127

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[127] φησὶν οὖν τῷ βιωσομένῳ κατὰ τὴν ἱερωτάτην αὐτοῦ πολιτείαν· „ὦ γενναῖε,
πολλή τίς ἐστιν ἀφθονία σοι τῶν πρὸς ἀπόλαυσιν, οἷς μέμψις οὐ παρέπεται· συγγνωστὸν γὰρ ἂν ἦν ἴσως, ἐπειδὴ πολλὰ τῶν ἀβουλήτων ¹² ἡ ἀπορία καὶ σπάνις δρᾶν ἀναγκάζει. σὺ δὲ καὶ διαφέρειν εἰς ἐγκράτειαν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀρετὰς ὀφείλεις τὴν καλλίστην τεταγμένος τάξιν, ὑπὸ ταξιάρχῃ τῷ τῆς φύσεως ὀρθῷ λόγῳ, δι’ ὃν ἡμερῶσθαί σε δεῖ μηδὲν σκαιὸν τῇ διανοίᾳ παραδεχόμενον.

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.) — 127 focus

[127] Therefore, he says to the man who is about to live in accordance with his most sacred constitution, "My good man, there is a great abundance of things of which you are permitted the enjoyment, to which there is no blame attached; for, perhaps, it would have been pardonable if it were not so, since want and scarcity compel men to do many things which otherwise they would not intend. But you ought to be preeminent in temperance and the practise of all virtues; being reckoned in the most admirable of all classifications and enrolled in obedience to a most excellent captain, the right reason of nature, by all which considerations you ought to be rendered humane, avoiding receiving in your mind any thing which is wrong.

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De virtutibus

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1 πανύστατον S: σπανιώτατον ceteri (Turn.) πραθείς] προσθείς F, πραθέντα G’ ἀλλαγαὶ γὰρ αἱ τῶν S: ἀλλά τε γὰρ τὸ Α, ἀλλάττεται· τὸ γὰρ C, ἀλλάττεται γάρ τὸ ceteri (Turn.)
2 ὅπου] ὂν ὅπη G1 ῥοπὴν] ῥωὴν G2 ἕξουσιν S ὡμολογημένου HP
4 tit, διὰ τί προστάσσει τὰ γεννήματα τῶν ζώων μὴ θύειν πρὸ ζ΄ ἡμερῶν add. S καὶ ante φίλων om. CG2
5 καὶ ante δούλων om. C, καὶ δούλων om. S
6 δ’ Α ἀλόγων] ἄλλλων G2 ζώων SCG2: om. ceteri (v) φύσιν ἄγει SG1: τείνει φύσιν ἀεὶ F (Mang.), φύσιν ἀεὶ ceteri (Turn.) ; φύσιν ἀποτείνει coni. Wendl.
7 μεταδιδοὺς] μετὰ αἰδοῦς G2 ὥσπερ] ὡς καθάπερ conicio εὐμενοῦς] ἀεννάοῦς (ἀενάου?) coni. Mang. 7.
8 τι χρηστόν G1
8 ἐν ταῖς SFG1: ἔν τε ceteri (Turn.) ἡμέρας HP τὰς ποίμνας S
9 αἰπόλια SFG1H2: ἐπαύλεις C, ἐπαύλια ceteri τῶν om. Α
10 μήτε . . . μήτε] μηδ’ . . . μηδ’ S πρὸς] εἰς S ἐπὶ προφάσει S (Clem. Α1.): ἐπὶ om. ceteri (v)
11 εἰς S: om. ceteri (v)
12 aὖ om. G1ΗP
13 δ’ Α ἀηδίας S: om. in lac. G1, ἀΐδιον F, ἀϊδίου ceteri (Turn.) ἐκτόπου τινὸς ψυχῆς S: ψυχῆς ἐκτόπου τινὸς ceteri ψυχῆς seclusit Mang. παρηλλαγμένην G2, παρηλλαγμένου F
14 τῶ βιασαμένω AFHP
15 σοι τῶν CG1G2: σίτων S, τῶν (om. σοι) AFHP 15.
16 οἷς μέμψις οὐ παρέπεται om. S
16 ἄν om. G2 ἣν om. F

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8 Exod. 22,30. Lev. 22,27. cf. loseph. Ant. lud. III §236 κωλύει δὲ ὁ νόμος θύειν ζῷον αὐθημερὸν μετὰ τοῦ γεγεννηκότος ἐπὶ ταὐτό, οὐδ’ ἄλλως δέ πρὶν ὀγδόην ἡμέραν γεννηθέντι διελθεῖν.
8 sqq. Cletm. Alex. l.l. p.477P. ἐμοὶ δὲ δοκεῖ καὶ Πυθαγόρας τὸ ἥμερον τὸ περὶ τά ἄλογα ζῷα παρὰ τοῦ νόμου εἰληφέναι. αὐτίκα τῶν γεννωμένων κατά τε τὰς ποίμνας κατά τε τὰ αἰπόλια καὶ βουκόλια τῆς παραχρῆμα ἀπολαύσεως ἀπέχεσθαι, μηδὲ ἐπὶ προφάσει θυσιῶν λλαμβάνοντας, διηγόρευσεν, ἐκγόνων τε ἕνεκα καὶ μητέρων, εἰς ἡμερότητα τόν ἄνθρωπον κάτωθεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλόγων ζῴων ἀνατρέφων.

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