Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 199

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[199] 3 αὐτίκα τοὺς ἐκ τοῦ γηγενοῦς φύντας τίς οὐκ ἂν εὐπατρίδας εἴποι καὶ εὐπατριδῶν ἀρχηγέτας; οἳ γένος ἐξαίρετον ἔλαχον παρὰ τοὺς ἔπειτα, βλαστήσαντες ἐκ τῶν πρώτων νυμφίων ἀνδρός τε καὶ γυναικὸς τότε πρῶτον εἰς ὁμιλίαν κοινὴν ἐπὶ
σπορᾷ τοῦ ὁμοίου συνελθόντων. ἀλλ’ ὅμως δυοῖν γενομένων ὁ πρεσβύτερος ὑπέμεινε τὸν νεώτερον δολοφονῆσαι καὶ τὸ μέγιστον ἄγος, ¹² ἀδελφοκτονίαν, ἐργασάμενος πρῶτος αἵματι ἀνθρωπίνῳ τὴν γῆν ἐμίανε.

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.) — 199 focus

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Again, who is there who would deny that those men who were born of him who was made out of the earth were noble themselves, and the founders of noble families? persons who have received a birth more excellent than that of any succeeding generation, in being sprung from the first wedded pair, from the first man and woman, who then for the first time came together for the propagation of offspring resembling themselves. But, nevertheless, when there were two persons so born, the elder of them endured to slay the younger; ¹ and, having committed the great and most accursed crime of fratricide, he first defiled the ground with human blood.

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De virtutibus

1.
1 δὲ S: δ’ ceteri ἄτιμα SC2G2: ἀτιμία ceteri κἀμοὶ S: καὶ ἐμοὶ ceteri ἐχθρὰ] αἰσχρὰ ΗP τὸ ἀναίσχυντον Mang.: τὸ ἀναισχύντατον S, τά ἀναίσχυντα ceteri (Turn.) τὸ ante ψεῦδος om. S
2 ἡ κακία S
4 καὶ κεκομψευμένας N: καὶ om. ceteri, καὶ post κεκομψευμένας ss. H2 (sic v) κεκομψευσμένας F ἀπατᾷς Η1P, ἀπάτης C
5 διότι] διὸ S πρός ante εὐπροσώπους add. P
6 ἤθη] ἡ S ὑπαλλάξασθαι S: ὑπαλλάξαι ceteri (v)
7 τὰ C: τὰς S, κατά FG2HP, τοὺς corr. in τά κατὰ N
8 ἔχθρας codd.: ἐχθράς v ἐκκαύματα S ζωπυρήσοντας Ν
9 ὑποβλέψομαι C: ἀποβλέψομαι ceteri
10 παράδειγμα add. Wendl. (v. sup. p. 251,1)
11 περιϊδρυμένων S 12.
13 ἀπομάξασθε S
14 ὅτι om. C δ’ S ἐν om. H P (Turn.). ἐν ἀρετῆς δέ transp. C κτίσει F τίθετε G2H2 (Turn.) καὶ om. G2
15 ὑπείληφεν S: ὑπειλήφαμεν C, ὑπελείφατε F, ὑπειλήφατς ceteri (v) ὥς τις F ἂν om. FN
16 γονέων] προγόνων S γονέων: hic desinit C
17 εὐπατριδῶν FG2: ευ εκπατρίδων (sic) S, εὐπατρίδων ceteri (v) ὄι] οἷς Η1Ρ ’P γένος] γέρας coni. Mang.
18 βλαστήσαντες H2: βλαστῶντας S, βλαστήσαντας ceteri
19 τε om. S καινὴν S
20 σποράν S γενομένοιν S (sed οι ex ω corr.)
21 ὑπέμεινεν S ἄγος] ἄλγος H

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6 sqq. Gen. cap. 4.

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 199

ed. Leopold Cohn

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