Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 162

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[162] ἀλαζονεία γὰρ φύεται καὶ ἐν ἠμελημένοις καὶ ἀφανέσιν ἀνθρώποις, ὡς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον ψυχῆς παθῶν τε καὶ νοσημάτων καὶ ἀρρωστημάτων, τὴν δ’ ἐπὶ πλέον παραύξησιν οὐ p. 403 M. λαμβάνει, ἀλλ’ οἷα πυρὸς οὐσία διὰ σπάνιν ὕλης ἀμαυροῦται· περιφαίνεται
δ’ ἐν τοῖς μεγάλοις χορηγοὺς ὡς ἔφην ἔχουσι τούτου τοῦ κακοῦ πλούτους καὶ δόξας καὶ ἡγεμονίας, ὧν ὑποπλησθέντες καθάπερ οἱ πολὺν ἄκρατον ἐμφορησάμενοι μεθύουσι καὶ ἐμπαροινοῦσι δούλοις ὁμοῦ καὶ ἐλευθέροις, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ ὅλαις πόλεσι· „τίκτει γὰρ κόρος ὕβριν”, ὡς ὁ τῶν παλαιῶν λόγος.

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.) — 162 focus

[162] for arrogance is very often engendered in men of no reputation or character, just as any other of the passions, or diseases, or infirmities of the soul, but it does not receive any growth or increase in such men, but, like fire, it is extinguished for want of fuel. But in great men it is very conspicuous, since they, as I said before, have food for this evil in riches, and glory, and authority, with which the men are entirely filled, and like those who have drunk great quantities of strong wine become intoxicated, and in their drunkenness they attack slaves and free men all alike, and at times even whole cities; for satiety produces insolence, as the proverb of the ancients tells us. ¹

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 162

ed. Leopold Cohn

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