Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 150

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[150] 21 p. 401 M. καὶ προσυπερβάλλων οὐδὲ τὴν τῶν πολεμίων
χώραν τέμνειν ἐᾷ, παραγγέλλει δ’ ἀνέχειν δενδροτομιῶν καὶ δῃώσεων, ἄτοπον ὑπολαβὼν εἶναι τὴν πρὸς ἀνθρώπους ὀργὴν ἀποσκήπτειν εἰς τὰ μηδενὸς αἴτια κακοῦ.

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.) — 150 focus

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And, going beyond all other lawgivers in humanity, he does not allow his people even to ravage the country of their enemies, but he commands them to abstain from cutting down the trees, thinking it unjust that the anger which is excited against men should wreak itself on things which are innocent of all evil.

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