Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 128

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[128] ἧττον τῶν ἰδίων κακῶν τῶν δυσμενῶν τὰ ἀγαθά. καὶ ἡσυχαζόντων δὲ ¹² τῶν ἐχθρῶν οὐχ ἡσυχάσουσιν αἱ ἐκ φύσεως ἀργαλεώτεραι ζημίαι· σὺ μὲν γὰρ κατασπείρεις τὴν βαθύγειον τῆς πεδιάδος, ἀκρίδων δὲ νέφος ἐξαίφνης καταπτάμενον ἐκθερίσει καὶ τὰ ὑπολειφθέντα πολλοστὸν εἰς συγκομιδὴν ἔσται μέρος τῶν σπαρέντων· καὶ σὺ μὲν ἀμπελῶνα φυτεύεις δαπάναις ἀφειδέσι καὶ κακοπαθείαις ἀτρύτοις, ἃς εἰκὸς γεωπόνους
ἀναδέχεσθαι, τελειωθέντα δὲ ἤδη καὶ βλαστάνοντα καὶ βρίθοντα ὑπ’ εὐφορίας σκώληκες ἐπιγενόμενοι τρυγήσουσι.

De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 5. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1906.)

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On Rewards and Punishments First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 128 focus

[128] And even if one’s enemies are quiet, still those evils which proceed from nature and which are even more grievous, are not quiet; for you, indeed, sow the deep and fertile soil of the plain, but suddenly a cloud of locusts shall fly down and reap your crop, and what is left behind for you to carry home to your barns will bear but a very small proportion to what is sown. And, again, you shall plant a vineyard with unsparing expense, and incessant industry, and labour, such as it is natural for husbandmen to undergo; but when the vines are come to perfection, and are flourishing and weighed down with their own productiveness, the worms shall come and gather the grapes.

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De praemiis et poenis et De exsecrationibus

1.
1 συνεζευγμένος Α τῆς δουλείας HP: κἀν τῆ δουλεία Α (Mang.)
3 ἀλλὰ διαβεβοημένης om. H (Turn.)
4 ἐξουσίαν codd.: ὑπερουσίαν Turn. ὑφ’ om. Turn. 6.
7 ὕστατόν τε καὶ A
7 μέρος οὐ μέρος coni. Mang. τῶ μελῶν ἀριθμῶ Η2 (Turn.) ἀλλά AHP: om. v
8 σόβησίς AP: σόβητρον Η μὲν Α: om. HP (v) 8.
9 ἀνθρωπείου ΑΗΡ: ἀνθρωπίνου v
9 εἴτ᾿ ἄνδρα Α
14 φιλοδώρου Α: φιλαρέτου ΗΡ (om. Turn.) αὐτόν codd.
16 ὁρισθείσας Α mg P2: om. HP (Turn.)
17 tit. περὶ ἀρῶν Η, τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ ἀρῶν P, τοῦ αὐτοῦ φίλωνος περὶ ἀρῶν Α
19 ἀπορίας HP: ἀπωλείας Α
21 ἀμύσουσιν 1 ἐργασάμενον scripsi: ἐργασάμενοι codd., ἐργασόμενοι v
23 τῶν δυσμενῶν τὰ ἀγαθά A: τά δυσμενῶν ἀγαθά HP (v) δὲ Α: μὲν HP (v)

2.
1 Lev. 26,13.
4 Deut. 28,13.
18 sqq. Lev. 26,16. Deut. 28,20.

Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 128

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