Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 207

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[207] πολύπαις ἦν ὁ πρῶτος ἐκ τριῶν παιδοποιησάμενος γυναικῶν, οὐ δι’ ἡδονῆς ἀπόλαυσιν, ἀλλὰ δι’ ἐλπίδα τοῦ πληθῦναι τὸ γένος· ἀλλ’ ἐκ πολλῶν εἷς μόνος ἀπεδείχθη κληρονόμος τῶν πατρῴων ἀγαθῶν, οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι πάντες γνώμης ὑγιοῦς
σφαλέντες καὶ μηδὲν τῶν τοῦ γεννήσαντος ἀπομαξάμενοι διῳκίσθησαν ἀλλοτριωθέντες τῆς ἀοιδίμου εὐγενείας.

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.) — 207 focus

[207] The first man of them had a numerous family, inasmuch as he had children by three wives, not forming these connections for the sake of pleasure, but because of his hope of multiplying his race. But, of all his children, one alone was appointed to be the inheritor of his father’s possessions; and all the rest, being disappointed of their reasonable hopes, and having failed to obtain any portion whatever of their father’s wealth, departed to live in different countries, having been completely alienated from that celebrated nobility of birth.

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