Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 143

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[143] πάνυ γὰρ ἄτοπον ὑπέλαβεν εἶναι τὴν τροφὴν ζῶντος ἥδυσμα γενέσθαι καὶ παράρτυσιν ἀναιρεθέντος καὶ τὴν μὲν φύσιν ἐπιμεληθεῖσαν αὐτοῦ τῆς διαμονῆς ὀμβρῆσαι γάλα, ὃ διὰ μαστῶν τῆς τεκούσης οἷα δεξαμενῶν φέρεσθαι διετάξατο, τὴν δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων
ἀκρασίαν τοσοῦτον ἐπιβῆναι, ὡς τῷ τῆς ζωῆς αἰτίῳ καταχρήσασθαι καὶ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ ὑπολοίπου σώματος ἀνάλωσιν.

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.) — 143 focus

[143] For he looked upon it as a very terrible thing for the nourishment of the living to be the seasoning and sauce of the dead animal, and when provident nature had, as it were, showered forth milk to support the living creature, which it had ordained to be conveyed through the breasts of the mother, as if through a regular channel, that the unbridled licentiousness of men should go to such a height that they should slay both the author of the existence of the other, and make use of it in order to consume the body of the other.

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