Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 136

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[136] τοιαῦτα ¹² τὸ κουφότατον εἶναι δοκοῦν τῶν κακῶν, ἀπορία, προσεργάζεσθαι πέφυκεν, ὅταν θεήλατος ἐπάγηται δίκη· καὶ γὰρ εἰ χαλεπὰ ῥῖγος, δίψος, ἔνδεια τροφῆς, ἀλλ’ εὐκταιότατα γένοιτ’ ἂν ἐπὶ καιρῶν, εἰ μόνον ἀνυπέρθετον φθορὰν ἐργάσοιτο· χρονίζοντα δὲ καὶ τήκοντα ψυχήν τε καὶ σῶμα τῶν τετραγῳδημένων, ἃ δι’ ὑπερβολὰς μεμυθεῦσθαι δοκεῖ, βαρύτερα πέφυκε
καινουργεῖν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 136 focus

[136] Such evils, that which appears at first to be the lightest of all misfortunes, namely, poverty, is naturally calculated to produce, when it is the result of the vengeance of God; for even though cold, and thirst, and want of food may be terrible, still they might at times be objects worth being prayed for, if they only produced instantaneous death without any delay. But when they last a long time and waste away both body and soul, then they are calculated to reproduce the very greatest of the calamities recorded by the tragic poets, which appear to me to be described in a spirit of fabulous exaggeration.

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De praemiis et poenis et De exsecrationibus

1.
2 ἐσταχυηφόρησεν scripsi: ἐσταχυφόρησεν codd. 2.3 ὑετὸν ἤνεγκε χαλκός Α: χαλκοῦς (sic) ὑετὸν ἤνεγκε HP (χαλκὸς ὑετὸν ἤνεγκε v)
3 ὧν om. H (Turn.)
4 ὡρῶν] καρπῶν coni. Mang.
5 γενέσεις] κινήσεις coni. Mang.
7 μέντοι] μὲν Α ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἄνωθεν transp. Α
8 καρπὸν] κακόν conicio διαπνίγουσαν ἀπώλειαν A 8.9 ἵνα—ὀλέθρῳ] ἵνα μηδενός παραλειφθέντος Α
12 δ’ Α
13 ἀλλοτριωθέντςε] ἐλαττωθέντες conicio
14 ἀλληλοφαγίαις Η1P ὀθνείων Mang.: ἐθνῶν codd.
16 γονέως Η1P
17 ἀεὶ δέ] ἔσονται coni. Mang.
18 τὰ θυἐστεια Α, τὰ θυέστια HP: τὰ Θυέστου v παιδιὰ scripsi (ludas vertit Mang.): παιδία codd. (v) καὶ seclusit Mang.
19 τοῖς Α: om. ΗP (v)
20 ὁ βίος ποθεινὸς transp. Α
21 καὶ] ἢ Α
22 ἧττον γὰρ χαλεπὸν scripsi: ἧττον γὰρ codd.; αἱρετώτερον γὰρ coni. Mang.
23 ἀνίας] ἡνίας Η(Turn.)
24 καὶ om. Α

2.
7 Deut. 28,24. Lev. 26,31.
15 Lev. 26,29. Deut. 28,53.

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