Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 109

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[109] ὁ δὲ τλητικώτατα εἶπε· „πτίσσε τὸν Ἀναξάρχου ἀσκόν· Ἀνάξαρχον γὰρ οὐκ ἂν δύναιο." αὗται γέμουσαι θράσους αἱ εὐτολμίαι τὴν ἡρωϊκὴν εὐγένειαν οὐ μετρίως ὑπερβάλλουσι, διότι τοῖς μὲν τὸ κλέος ἐν τοῖς φυτεύσασιν ἀκούσιον, τῶν
δ’ ἐν ἑκουσίοις ἀρεταῖς, αἳ τοὺς ἀδόλως χρωμένους ἀθανατίζειν πεφύκασι.

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.) — 109 focus

[109] and the other said with great fortitude, "Beat Aristarchus’s skin, for you cannot beat Aristarchus himself." These instances of brave fortitude, wholly full of daring, exceed in no slight degree the nobleness of those heroes, because the one class have a glory handed down to them by their ancestors without any actions of their own, while the fame of the others is founded on deeds of virtue deliberately performed, which very naturally make immortal those who practise them in a guileless spirit.

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