Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 108

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[108] τοιγαροῦν ὁ μὲν κρινόμενος καὶ κατατεινόμενος ὑπὲρ τοῦ τι τῶν ἀρρήτων ἐκλαλῆσαι, πυρὸς καὶ σιδήρου, τῶν ἐν τῇ φύσει κραταιοτάτων, φανεὶς δυνατώτερος, ἀποτραγὼν
τοῖς ὀδοῦσι τὴν γλῶτταν εἰς τὸν βασανιστὴν ἠκόντισεν, ἵνα μηδ’ ἄκων ἃ καλὸν ἡσυχάζειν φθέγξηται βιασθείς.

Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 108 focus

[108] Therefore, the one being hung up and violently stretched for the sake of making him divulge some secret, showed himself mightier than fire or iron, though they are the strongest things in nature, and biting off his tongue with his teeth, spit it at his torturer, that he might not involuntarily utter what he ought to bury in silence, under the influence of agony;

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