Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 144

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[144] εἰ δή τις ἐν γάλακτι κρέα συνέψειν ἀξιοῖ, μὴ σὺν ὠμότητι, χωρὶς δὲ ἀσεβείας ἑψέτω· μυρίαι θρεμμάτων εἰσὶν ἀγέλαι πανταχοῦ καὶ καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἀμελγόμεναι διὰ βουκόλων αἰπόλων ποιμένων, οἷς κτηνοτροφοῦσιν ἡ μεγίστη
πρόσοδός ἐστι γάλα, τῇ μὲν κεχυμένον, τῇ δὲ συνεσταλμένον τε καὶ πηγνύμενον εἰς τυρόν· ὥστε ἀφθονίας ὑπαρχούσης τὸν ἀρνῶν ἢ ἐρίφων ἤ τινος ἑτέρου γάλακτι μητρῴῳ κρέα συνέψοντα χαλεπὴν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι τρόπων σκαιότητα, τὸ ἀναγκαιότατον καὶ συγγενέστατον λογικῇ ψυχῇ πάθος ἐκτετμημένον, τὸν ἔλεον.

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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.) — 144 focus

[144] And if any one should desire to dress flesh with milk, let him do so without incurring the double reproach of inhumanity and impiety. There are innumerable herds of cattle in every direction, and some are every day milked by the cowherds, or goatherds, or shepherds, since, indeed, the milk is the greatest source of profit to all breeders of stock, being partly used in a liquid state and partly allowed to coagulate and solidify, so as to make cheese. So that, as there is the greatest abundance of lambs, and kids, and all other kinds of animals, the man who seethes the flesh of any one of them in the milk of its own mother is exhibiting a terrible perversity of disposition, and exhibits himself as wholly destitute of that feeling which, of all others, is the most indispensable to, and most nearly akin to, a rational soul, namely, compassion.

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De virtutibus

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1 φάσκων SC: φάσκων ἀλλ’ G2 (cf. Clem. Α1.), φάσκων ἄλλο ceteri (Mang.) οὐκ S1, corr. S2
2 ἄτοπον ὑπέλαβεν εἶναι S: ὑπέλαβεν εἶναι δεινὸν ceteri (v) τροφὸν F
4 ὅ—διετάξατο (5) om. in textu C, add. mg C2 ὅ] οἱ Λ διὰ μαστῶν SCG1: δ’ οἷα μαστῶν G2 δ’ οἷα μαστὸν FHP, δ’ οἶα μασθὸν Α
5 οἷα δεξαμενῶν SG2: ὡς ἐκ δεξαμενῶν C (v), ἀναδεξαμένων GHP, ἀναδεξάμενον AF φέρεσθαι SCG1: φέρεται ceteri
6 ἀκρισίαν G2HP1 ὡς τῷ] ὥστε S καταχρῆσθαι S
7 καὶ om. C ἀνάλυσιν S εἰ δὴ τις scripsi: εἰ δὴ τὰ S, ἐπειδὴ τὰ ceteri (Turn.) ; εἰ δὲ τὰ Mang. ἐπειδὴ—ἑψέτω (8) om. in textu C, add. mg C2 ἐν γάλακτι om. G1 ἐν SC: σὺν ceteri (Turn.)
8 χωρὶς διασεβείας (sic) S δ’ Α
9 εἰσὶν ἀγέλαι S: ἀγέλαι εἰσὶ ceteri (v) καὶ om. CG2 9.
10 ἀναμελγόμεναι A
10 ποιμένων] ποιμνίων F οἷς] τοῖς S, τοῖς ex οἷς corr. Η
11 ἐστὶ γάλα S: γάλα AP2, τὸ γάλα FG1 (Mang.), om. CG2HP (Turn.) κεχυμένον S: ἐκκεχυμένον Α, ἐγκεχυμένον ceteri (v) συνεστλμἐνον τὲ S: συνιστάμενον ceteri (v)
12 ὥστ’ Α, ὥστε om. S; ὡς conicio τὸν scripsi: τῶν δὲ S, τῶν in τῶ corr. C2, τῶν ceteri (v) ἢ ἐρίφων ἤ] πφωνη (sic) S
13 ante γάλακτι add. τόν Η2 (v), om. ceteri μητρώων G2 κρέα] γάλα A συνέψοντα SG2H2: ἀνέψοντα F, συνἐψοντι ceteri
14 τύ S: om. ceteri (Turn.)

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1 sqq. pergit Clem. .Alex. l. l. (οἱ δὲ καὶ περιλακτίζοντες τὰς γαστέρας πρὸ τῆς ἀποτέξεως ζῴων τινῶν, ἵνα δὴ γάλακτι ἀνακεκρμένην σάρκα θοινάζωνται, τάφον τῶν κυοφορουμένων τὴν εἰς γένεσιν κτισθεῖσαν μήτραν πεποιήκασι), διαορήδην τοῦ νομοθέτου κελεύοντος „ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἑψήσεις ἄρνα ἐν γάλακτι μητρὸς αὐτοῦ“· μὴ γὰρ γινέσθω ἡ τοῦ ζῶντος τροφὴ ἥδυσμα τοῦ ἀναιρεθέντος ζῴου, φησίν, μηδὲ τό τῆς ζωῆς αἴτιον συνεργὸν τῇ τοῦ σώματος καταναλώσει γινἐσθω.

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