Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 125

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[125] And there was also a man of the name of Choereas, a man of considerable education, who was a zealous imitator of Diogenes’s freedom of speech; for he, being an inhabitant of Alexandria in Egypt, on one occasion, when Ptolemy was offended with him, and was uttering no slight threats against him, thinking that the freedom which was implanted in his nature was in no respect inferior to the royal authority of the other, replied—

"Rule your Egyptian slaves; but as for me, -

I neither care for you, nor fear your wrath

And angry threats." ¹

Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit. Philo Judaeus. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023.

Current edition First1KGreek

To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free (English) (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.)

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Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit First1KGreek (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.) — 125 focus

[125] ζηλωτὴς δὲ τῆς τούτου παρρησίας ἐγένετό τις Χαιρέας τῶν ἀπὸ παιδείας. Ἀλεξάνδρειαν γὰρ οἰκῶν τὴν πρὸς Αἰγύπτῳ, δυσχεράναντός ποτε Πτολεμαίου καὶ ἀπειλήσαντος οὐ μετρίως, τῆς ἐκείνου βασιλείας οὐδὲν ἐλάττονα
τὴν ἐν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ φύσει νομίσας ἐλευθερίαν, ἀντέλεξεν·

„Αἰγυπτίοισιν ἄνασσε, σέθεν δ’ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀλεγίζω

οὐδ’ ὄθομαι κοτέοντος.“

ἔχουσι γάρ τι βασιλικὸν αἱ εὐγενεῖς ψυχαί,

Notes on the current edition

To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free

1. This is a parody on Hom Il. i 180, where Agamemnon says to Achilles—

Οἴκαδ’ ἰὼν σὺν νηῦσί τεσαῖς καὶ σοϊς ἑτάροισι

Μυρμιδόνεσσι ἄνασσε.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 125

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