Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 9

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[9] ἔστι γὰρ ὁ μὲν θεὸς ἀνεπιδεής, οὐδενὸς χρεῖος ὤν, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸς αὐταρκέστατος ἑαυτῷ· ὁ δὲ φαῦλος πολυδεής, ἀεὶ διψῶν τῶν ἀπόντων ἀπλήστου καὶ ἀκορέστου χάριν ἐπιθυμίας, ἣν πυρὸς τρόπον ἀναρριπίζων καὶ ἀναφλέγων ἐπὶ πάντα μικρά τε αὖ καὶ μεγάλα τείνει· ¹² ὁ δὲ σπουδαῖος ὀλιγοδεής, ἀθανάτου καὶ θνητῆς φύσεως μεθόριος, τὸ μὲν ἐπιδεὲς ἔχων διὰ σῶμα θνητόν, τὸ δὲ μὴ πολυδεὲς διὰ ψυχὴν ἐφιεμένην ἀθανασίας.

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.) — 9 focus

[9] for God is a being who is in need of nothing, as there is nothing of which he is destitute, but as he is himself all-sufficient for himself. But the bad man is one of extravagant tastes, being always thirsting for what he has not got, because of his insatiable and unappeasable appetites which he fans and excites like fire, and kindles into a flame, directing them towards every kind of gain, whether great or small; but the virtuous man wants but little, being placed as it were on the borders between the immortal and the mortal nature, having wants indeed by reason of his body being mortal, and his freedom from extravagance because his soul is continually longing for immortality:

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De virtutibus

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3 Μόνων Κ
4 ἀέναα] ἀένεα E, ἀένναα ceteri
5 εἰδέας S αἲ] αἱ S1EK1 φέρουσι VOFAH-: φέρουσαι ceteii
6 ἄγουσιν S
7 παρ’ οὐδὲν om. SVOFG θέμενοι] ἀποθέμενοι V-OF 7.
8 καινῶν δοξῶν E, κενοδόξων S (Maug.)
8 προσβλέποντος FH1, προβλἐποντι VO, ὡς βλέποντι AP2
9 πεπειρωμἐνω M
10 δορυφορούμενος Α οὐ ante φύσεως add. V2OK2F φύσεως om. M εὕρημα Κ: εὕρεμα G, εὕρεμα ceteri (v) ὣν] ὧν SBE, ὂν Α
13 tert. καὶ om. S
15 εὐκολίας] εὐτελείας F ὀλιγοδείας KAP: ὀλιγοδεείας ceteri ὀλιγοδείας v)
16 ἀνεπιδεής] ἀνενδεὴς ’M χρεῖος ὤν scripsi: χρέως ὢ corr. ex ὁ) ὢν S, χρήζων ceteri (v)
17 πολυδεής D (-ές DK): πολυτελὴς VOFH2, ὁ πολυτελὴς ceteri ὁ ante ἀεὶ add. BEKM ἀεὶ διψῶν] ἐπιδιψῶν S
19 ἀναρυπίζων S1 καὶ ἀναφλέγων om. AIIP (Turn.) μικρά τε αὗ KD: τε αὖ μικρὰ DR, αὖ μικρά AGHP (v), μικρά τε oni. SBEM, τε αὖ ora. VOF τείνει] τινί G, τινά DK, ἀπότεινέ V2OK2F

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16 cf. Clem. Alex. Poed. III
1 p. 250 p. ἀνενδεὴς δὲ μόνος
6 θεός. Strom. II IS p.
41 1 P. ἀνενδεὲς μὲν γὰρ τὸ θεῖον καὶ ἀπαθές. 17—19 DK fol. 82v DM fol. 39v DL fol. 67r DP fol. 24r et 87r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ περὶ ἀρετῶν DR fol. 46r DV p. 378 Mei. Barocc. fol. 71r Φίλωνος
6 φαῦλος ἀιὶ πολυδεὴς — ἐπὶ πάντα μικρά τε αὖ καὶ μεγάλα τείνει.

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 9

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