Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 42

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[42] ὁ δὲ τοῦ ἔθνους ἡγεμὼν ἐπαντλῶν τοῖς ὠσὶ τὰ ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας δόγματα καὶ τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν ὑπηκόων τούτοις ἐπάγων ἐκ φυλῆς
ἑκάστης χιλίους ἄνδρας ἀριστίνδην ἐπιλέξας καταλέγει, δίκας ἀναπράξων τῆς ἐνέδρας, ἣν ἐμηχανήσαντο διὰ τῶν γυναικῶν, ἐλπίσαντες μὲν ἅπασαν τὴν πληθὺν ἄνωθεν ἐξ ἄκρας ὁσιότητος καταβαλόντες διαφθεῖραι, μόνους ¹

De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 42 focus

[42] But the ruler of the whole nation, infusing into the ears of his people doctrines of piety, and charming the souls of his subjects with them, selected and picked out a thousand men of each tribe, choosing them with regard to their excellence, and he bade them to inflict upon the enemy punishment for the treachery which they had contrived by means of the women, when they hoped to destroy the whole multitude by casting them down from the heights of their pure and sublime piety, though, in effect, they were only able to delude those whom I have enumerated.

Notes on the current edition

De virtutibus

1.
1 αὐτῶ K περιέσεσθαι SG ταῦτα BKAG
3 καθυποκρινάμεναι S: καθυποκρινόμεναι ceteri (v)
4 ἐσhησι v: αἰσθήσεσι A1P, ἐσθήσεσι ceteri εἴωθε] ἔσωθε S διακομεῖσθαι Ε
5 πᾶσαι P εὐμορφώτερον HP
6 ἐργασάμεναι VOF γὰρ om. M
7 ἀθηράτων codd.: εὐθηράτων Η2 (v) τό ἐμφανές Α γινόμεναι Η 7.8 βλέμμα ’P
8 σχέσεσι S: ὀρχήσεσι ceteri (v)
9 ἦς ἀνερμάτιστα coni. Mang. ἀtδρυτα S
10 καὶ om. K
12 χειροτμήτων S, γηροκομἡτων (sic) G post ἀλλοτριοῦσι add. δὲ ’P, δὴ Η2 (v)
13 εὐαγγελίζονται om. A 13.14 καὶ ἔμελλον ἄν καὶ ἄλλους scripsi: xat ἐμέλλοσαν spat.
5 fere litt. καὶ ους S, ἔμελλον ἀρὰν Α mg P2, καὶ—ἄλλοθσ om. ceteri (in lacuna BEKM) ; καὶ ἐμἐλλοσαν τοὺς ἄλλους Mang.
14 ἐπισπάσασθαι Α τοὺς μὴ σφόδρα βεβαίους V2K2, τοὺς σφόδρα βεβαίους OF pr. μὴ om. AH2 (v)
16 ἀπονοηθέντων SVOFH2: ἐπινοηθέντων ceteri
17 ἀναχαιτίσαι BEKMHP
18 ἐπαντλῶν S: om. ceteri (Turn.)
19 ταῖς ψυχαῖς B2MV2OFH2 (Turn.) τούτοις eras. V2, om. O ἐπάγων scripsi: ἐπᾴδων codd.; ἐπαίρων coni. Wendl.
20 ἐπιλέξας ἀριστίνδην transp. Α ἀναπράξων SGV1: ἀντεισπράξων V2OF, ἀνπρᾶξαι ceteri (v) ; ἀναπράξοντας coni. Mang.
21 ἐμηχανήσατο M τῶν om. VOF
22 ἄνωθεν om. Α

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