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p. 437 M. 1 Διὸ καὶ τοῖς ὑμνοῦσι τὴν εὐγένειαν ὡς μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν καὶ μεγάλων ἀγαθῶν αἴτιον οὐ μετρίως ἐπιτιμητέον, εἰ πρῶτον μὲν οἴονται τοὺς ἐκ παλαιοπλούτων καὶ παλαιενδόξων εὐγενεῖς, μηδὲ τῶν προγόνων, ¹² ἀφ’ ὧν αὐχοῦσι γενέσθαι, διὰ τὰς ἀφθόνους περιουσίας εὐδαιμονησάντων, ἐπειδὴ τὸ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἀγαθὸν οὐδενὶ τῶν ἐκτός, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τῶν περὶ σῶμα, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐδὲ παντὶ μέρει ψυχῆς, ἀλλὰ μόνῳ τῷ ἡγεμονικῷ πέφυκεν ἐνδιαιτᾶσθαι.

De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 187 focus

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We ought to rebuke in no measured language those who celebrate nobility of birth as the greatest of all blessings, and the cause also of great blessings, if in the first place they think those men nobly born who are sprung from persons who were rich and glorious in the days of old, when those very ancestors themselves, from whom they boast to be descended, were not made happy by their unlimited abundance; since, in truth, that which is really good does not naturally or necessarily lodge in any external thing, nor in any of the things which belong to the body, and indeed I may even say not in every part of the soul, but only in the dominant and most important portion of it. ¹

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De virtutibus

1.
1 ὁμοῦ καὶ θεοφιλὴς C (v)
2 τὸ ante τὸν add. S τόν θεόν S (Clem. Al.): τὸν κύριον CG2 (v) εἰλοῦ S (Clem. Al.): ἀντηλλάξω C (v), ἀντηλλαξάτω G2
3 σοι] σου Clem. Al. θεόν S (Clem. Al.): εἰς θεόν CG2 (v) εἵλατό S (Clem. Al.): ἀντηλλάξατο CG2 (v) αὐτοῦ S
4 τῆς διαιρέσεως S
5 τὸ ὄν S (Clem. Al.): θεόν C (v), θεῶ G2
6 προαπαντῶν (sic) S βουλήματι CG2: βουλεύματι S ἰόντος] εἰ ὄντος G2
7 ἀληθῶς coni. Mang. ὢν] ὢ S1, in ὁ corr. S2
8 αὐτός αἱρεῖται corruptum; αὖθις vel ἄλλοθι εἴρηται coni. Mang., πρότερον εἴρηται coni. Wendl.
11 γ’ οὗν G2
12 πάσα δύναμις scripsi: πάση δυνάμι codd. (v)
15 tit. περὶ εὐγενείας SCG2HRP: τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ εὐγενείας F
16 Διὸ καὶ τοῖς ὑμνοῦσι F: Καὶ τοῖς ὑμνοῦσι S, Τοῖς δὲ (δ’ P) ὑμνοῦσι ceteri (v) ὡς καὶ
17 εἰ om. S
18 πάλαι ἐνδόξων FG2 μηδὲ S: μήτε ceteri (v)

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1 sqq. pergit Clem. Alex. Strom. l. l. καλῶς οὖν ἐπὶ τῶν μετανοούντων εἴρηται τὸ λόγιον ἐκεῖνο „τὸν θεὸν εἰλοῦ σήμερον εἶναί σου θεόν, καὶ κύριος εἵλετό σε σήμερον γενέσθαι λαὸν αὐτῷ“. τὸν γὰρ σπεύδοντα θεραπεύειν τὸ ὂν ἱκέτην ὄντα ἐξοικειοῦται
6 θεός. κἄν εἷς ᾗ τὸν ἀριθμόν, ἐπ’ ἴσης τῷ λαῷ τετίμηται· μέρος γὰρ ὢν τοῦ λαοῦ συμπληρωτικὸς αὐτοῦ γίνεται ἀποκατασταθεὶς ἐξ
00 ἢν, καλεῖται δὲ καὶ ἐκ μέρους τὸ πάν.
16 sqq. cf. Wendland Philo u. die kynisch - stoische Diatribe (W. u. Kern, Beitr. z. Gesch. d. griech. Philos. u. Religion) p.
51 sqq.

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