Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 8

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[8] φασὶ τὸν παλαιὸν ἐκεῖνον Τριπτόλεμον Ἕλληνες ἀρθέντα μετέωρον ἐπὶ πτηνῶν δρακόντων τὸν τοῦ σίτου καρπὸν εἰς ἅπασαν τὴν γῆν κατασπείρειν, ἀντὶ βαλανηφαγίας ἵν’ ἔχῃ τὸ ἀνθρώπων γένος ἥμερον καὶ ὠφέλιμον καὶ ἡδίστην ¹² τροφήν. τοῦτο μὲν οὖν ὥσπερ πολλὰ καὶ ἄλλα τοῖς εἰωθόσι τερατεύεσθαι μύθου πλάσμα ὂν ἀπολελείφθω σοφιστείαν πρὸ σοφίας καὶ γοητείαν πρὸ ἀληθείας ἐπιτετηδευκόσιν.

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.) — 8 focus

[8] The Greeks say that in ancient times the famous Triptolemus was raised aloft and borne on winged dragons, and that while flying along in this manner he sowed the grains of wheat over the whole of the earth, in order that, instead of eating acorns, the human race might for the future have wholesome, and advantageous, and most pleasant food. This story, then, like many other tales, being, as it were, a fabulous fiction, may well be left to those who are accustomed to study sophistry rather than wisdom, and juggling tricks in preference to the truth;

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De praemiis et poenis et De exsecrationibus

1.
1 προταθέντα coni. Mang.
2 ἐπιτίμια corr. ex ἐπίτιμα Η
3 ἐπαναστάσεσι F
4 καί αὐτὸν FP: ὑπ’ αὐτὸν ΑΗ (ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ v)
5 ἐπαιδεύθησαν FP: ἐνομοθέτησεν ΑΗ (v) ἀπόδειξιν Α
6 post ἀγῶνα add. τοῖς κατ’ αὐτόν A (cf. 1.4) γυμνὴν P: om. FAH (v)
7 εἶθ’ F ἀθληταὶ] ἀσκηταὶ coni. Mang. τῶ ὄντι FP: om. AH (v)
8 δ’ V
9 ἄνανδροι F: ἄνανδροι καὶ μαλακοὶ AHP (v) ἀγενεῖς H ἡ P, ἢ οm. F
10 τι δυνατώτερον transp. F βιάσασθαι P, ἀναβιώσασθαι L ἀναβιάσασθαι Τurn.)
11 ἐγίνοντο F: ἐγένοντο AHP (v) καὶ om. Turn.
12 δ’ F
13 ἀπίεσαν P ἐπονείδιστον codd.: ὑπονείδιστον Turn. ἐνδειξάμενοι AP
14 ἀργαλεώτερον Α
15 δυνάμενοι Α δ’ F
16 μόλις F: μόγις AHP (v) ἐγεῖραι F
19 καὶ ἔθνη FHP: καὶ κατὰ ἔθνη Α (κατά ἔθνη Mang.)
20 pr. καὶ om. Α ἥδιστα F2
21 λαμβάνοντας Α: λαβόντας FHP (v) ἐφ’ ἑνός ἑκάστου Α ἀφ’ ἑ. ἑ. scripsi): ἀφ’ ἑκάστου HP, ἐφ’ ἑκάστου F (v)
23 ἅπασαν] ἅπαν F1
24 ἔχοι F

2. 8—11 DR fol. 138v Φίλωνος: οἱ ἄνανδροι ὑπὸ—γέλως ἑαυτῶν (sic)
22 cf. A pollod. Bibl. I 5,2. Himer. Or. 253.

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