Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 31

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[31] δι’ οὗ συμβαίνει κατορθοῦν ἢ τοὐναντίον. 6 τούτους οὖν καὶ τοὺς ὁμοίους οὐκ οἴεται δεῖν εἰς τὸν στρατιωτικὸν ἄγειν κατάλογον, ἀλλ’ οἷς οὐδὲν προενεληλυθὸς ὑποικουρεῖ πάθος, ὅπως ἐλευθέροις καὶ ἀφέτοις ὁρμαῖς ἀπροφασίστως τοῖς δεινοῖς ἐπαποδύωνται. καθάπερ γὰρ παντευχίας οὐδὲν ὄφελος ἀσθενεῖ σώματι ἢ λελωβημένῳ, ἣν ἀδυνατοῦν ἀπορρίψει,
τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐρρωμένον σῶμα φθερεῖ τι κηραινούσης πάθος ψυχῆς μὴ συνᾷδον τοῖς παροῦσιν.

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.) — 31 focus

Therefore our lawgiver does not think it proper to include those men, or any in a similar condition, in the roll of his soldiers, but only such as have no domestic circumstances of such a nature to detain them, in order that with free and unembarrassed inclinations they may engage in the pursuit of danger without shrinking; for as a weak or crippled body derives no advantage from a panoply of armour, which it will rather discard as being unable to bear it, so, in the same manner, a vigorous body causes affliction to a diseased soul by not being in conformity with its existing circumstances.

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 31

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