Περὶ φιλανθρωπίας.

1 Τὴν δ’ εὐσεβείας συγγενεστάτην καὶ ἀδελφὴν καὶ δίδυμον
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De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 51 focus

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ON HUMANITY.

We must now proceed in due order to consider that virtue which is more nearly related to piety, being as it were a sister, a twin sister, namely, humanity, which the father of our laws loved so much that I know not if any human being was ever more attached to it. For he knew that this was as it were a plain and level road conducting to holiness; and, therefore, he trained and instructed all the people who were in subjection to himself in precepts of fellowship, the most excellent of all lessons, exhibiting to them his own life as an archetypal model for them to copy.

Notes on the current edition

De virtutibus

1.
1 ἐλαττωθέντων scripsi: ἐλαττωθέντες S, ἐλαττωθέντος G, ἐλαττωθῆναι VOF (v), ἐλαττωθεῖσαν ceteri ἐν om. VOF 1.
2 προτρεπτικοῖς] προτρεπτικοῖς] Α
2 καὶ ὁσιότητα om. Tnrn. 2.
3 ἐπιτηδεύεις G
4 διακρατήσεις BEM
5 δι] μετ’ SVOF
7 μήτε SVOFA; μήτ’ ceteri ἐρυμνά om. F ἀπόμαχα V2OF προκαταλαβόμενοι S: προκαταλαμβανόμενοι ceteri (v)
8 μήτε SVOFA: μήτ’ ceteri χορηγῶνται] χρῶνται P
9 ἀπάντων S: om. ceteri (v) ἄγωσι F
10 τόπων ora. Α εὐκαιρίας] εὐχερείας Turn. II ἀνέστρεψε A 11.12 κατέδυσε coni. Mang.
12 εὐτελέσι] ἀτελέσι H (v) μεμυκόσιν VOFGH-: μεμεθυκόσιν ceteri ἐξ αὐχμοῦ— δυνάμεις (14) ora Α
13 ἐπινείφων BEMHP τὰς om. VOF
15 δεῖ . . . περιέχεσθαι scripsi: ἀεὶ αἰεὶ VOFGH-) . . . περιέχεται codd. (v) ἔνσπονδον om. F Ifi δέ SG: δ’ ccteri
17 ἀνδρίας AEFG ἀποχρῶντος G, ἀποχρώντως om. P περὶ ἀνδρείας καὶ εὐσεβείας subscr. G, φίλωνος περὶ ἀνδρείας siibscr. Η periit sectio περὶ εὐσεβείας
18 περὶ φανθρωπίας SCG2: τοῦ αὐτοῦ λόγος περὶ εὐσεβείας F, περὶ εὐσεβείας καὶ φιλανθρωπίας HP, tit. om. AG1
19 δ’ SCG2: om. ceteri εὐσεβείας SCG2: εὐσεβεία ceteri συγγενέτην S, συγγενέτιν CG2 (Turn.)
20 ὡς om. S

2.
2 sqq. Deut. 28,1. 2.7.

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