Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 141

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[141] ἔτι τοίνυν τὸ μὲν ἔθνος ἐπὶ μισανθρωπίᾳ διαβαλλέτωσαν, τοὺς δὲ νόμους ὡς ἄμικτα καὶ ἀκοινώνητα παραγγέλλοντας αἰτιάσθωσαν οἱ δεινοὶ συκοφάνται,
φανερῶς οὕτως τῶν μὲν νόμων ἐλέου μεταδιδόντων καὶ ταῖς τῶν θρεμμάτων ἀγέλαις, τοῦ δὲ ἔθνους ταῖς ἐκ πρώτης ἡλικίας νομίμοις ὑφηγήσεσιν ὅσον ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἀπειθὲς μεθαρμοζομένου πρὸς τὸ τιθασόν.

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.) — 141 focus

[141] Moreover, let wicked sycophants calumniate the whole nation as one given to inhumanity, and our laws as enjoining unsociable and inhuman observances, while the laws do thus openly show compassion on even the herds of cattle, and while the whole nation from its earliest youth is, as far as the disobedient nature of their souls will admit of, brought over by the honest admonitions of the law to a peaceable disposition.

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