Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 86

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[86]
εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ τοσαύτῃ κέχρηνται μοχθηρίας ὑπερβολῇ, ὥστε οὐκ ἔχοντες ἀργύριον τροφὰς δανείζουσιν ὡς πλείους ὧν ἔδοσαν αὖθις κομιζόμενοι. ταχύ γ’ ἂν οὗτοι μεταιτοῦσιν ἔρανον παράσχοιεν λιμὸν ἐν εὐθηνίᾳ καὶ εὐετηρίᾳ κατασκευάζοντες καὶ τὴν ἀθλίων ἀνθρώπων γαστρὸς ἔνδειαν προσοδευόμενοι καὶ μόνον οὐκ ἐπὶ τρυτάνης ἱστάντες σιτία καὶ ποτά, μὴ
καθέλκῃ ῥοπή.

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.) — 86 focus

[86] And these men run into such extravagances of wickedness, that if they have not money, they make usurious advances even of food, lending it on condition of receiving back again more than they lent. Accordingly, such men will speedily afford a contribution to those who ask for one, preparing famine and scarcity against a time of plenty and abundance, and making a revenue of the hunger of the bellies of miserable men, weighing out the food as it were in a scale, and taking care not to give overweight.

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