Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 226

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[226] 7 Τί τοίνυν μεταδοτέον τοῖς ὡς ἴδιον ἀγαθὸν τὸ ἀλλότριον,
εὐγένειαν, ὑποδυομένοις; οἳ δίχα τῶν εἰρημένων ἐχθροὶ δικαίως ἂν νομισθεῖεν καὶ τοῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους καὶ τῶν πανταχοῦ πάντων, τοῦ μὲν ὅτι διδόασι τοῖς ὁμοφύλοις ἐκεχειρίαν ὀλιγωρεῖν ὑγιαίνοντος βίου καὶ βεβαίου πεποιθήσει προγονικῆς ἀρετῆς, τῶν δ’ ὅτι, κἂν ἐπ’ αὐτὴν φθάσωσιν ἀκρότητα καλοκἀγαθίας, οὐδὲν ὠφεληθήσονται διὰ τὸ
μὴ τυχεῖν γονέων καὶ πάππων ἀνεπιλήπτων.

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.) — 226 focus

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We must not, therefore, give in to those persons who seek to creep stealthily into the possession of a property belonging to others, namely, nobility of birth, as though it were of right their own, and who, with the exception of those whom I have mentioned, might justly be looked upon as enemies not only of the race of the Jews but of all the human race in every quarter. Of the one because they give a truce to those of the same nation, allowing them to despise sound and stable virtue, through trusting implicitly in the virtue of their ancestors; and of the others because, even if they could attain to the highest and most absolute perfection of all excellence, they would still derive no advantage themselves, because of their not having irreproachable fathers and grandfathers.

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 226

ed. Leopold Cohn

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