Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 4

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[4] οὗτοι μὲν οὖν τὴν ἀληθῆ διαπονοῦσιν ἀνδρείαν ἀσκηταὶ σοφίας ὄντες, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ τὴν ψευδώνυμον ἀμαθίᾳ,
νόσῳ δυσθεραπεύτῳ, βιοῦντες, ἣν θρασύτητα κυρίως ἄν τις προσαγορεύσειεν, ὥσπερ φασὶν ἐν τοῖς νομίσμασι τὸ παράσημον ἐμφέρειαν τῆς ἀληθοῦς εἰκόνος.

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.) — 4 focus

[4] These men, then, are they who practise real courage, being studiers and practisers of wisdom; but those other men have only what does not deserve to be so called though it assumes the name, as they live in that incurable disease, ignorance, which one may very fitly and properly call audacity, just as people say that in coins base metal often bears the same impression as the real stamp and money.

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