Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 186

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[186] καὶ πέφυκεν οὕτως ἔχειν· ὡς γὰρ ἐν νηῒ μὲν κυβερνήτης πᾶσι τοῖς ναύταις ἀντίρροπος, ἐν δὲ στρατοπέδῳ
στρατηγὸς ἅπασι τοῖς στρατιώταις — διαφθαρέντος γοῦν ἡττᾶσθαι συμβαίνει, καθάπερ ἂν εἰ καὶ πᾶσα δύναμις ἡβηδὸν ἑάλω —, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ ὁ σοφὸς ὅλου ἔθνους ἀξιώματι ἁμιλλᾶται τείχει πεφραγμένος ἀκαθαιρέτῳ, θεοσεβείᾳ.

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.) — 186 focus

[186] for, as in a ship, the pilot is of as much importance as all the rest of the crew put together; and, as in an army, the general is of as much value as the whole of the army, since, if he is slain, the whole army is defeated as much as if it had been slain to a man and utterly destroyed; so in the same manner the wise man is, as to importance, on a par with the whole nation, being defended by that indestructible impregnable fortress, piety towards God. ¹

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