Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 114

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[114] Λακωνικοῦ παιδὸς ᾄδεται παρ’ οἷς ἔθος ἰχνηλατεῖν ἀρετὰς τὸ ἐκ γένους ἢ φύσεως ἀδούλωτον· ἐπειδὴ
γὰρ αἰχμάλωτος ἀπαχθεὶς ὑπό τινος τῶν Ἀντιγόνου τὰς μὲν ἐλευθέρας χρείας ὑπέμενε, ταῖς δὲ δουλικαῖς ἠναντιοῦτο φάσκων οὐχὶ δουλεύσειν, καίτοι μήπω τοῖς Λυκούργου νόμοις παγίως ἐντραφῆναι διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν δυνηθείς, ὅτι μόνον αὐτῶν ἐγεύσατο, τοῦ παρόντος ἀβιώτου βίου ¹² θάνατον εὐτυχέστερον κρίνας, ἀπογνοὺς ἀπολύτρωσιν, ἄσμενος ἑαυτὸν διεχρήσατο.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 114 focus

[114] The indomitable spirit of a Lacedaemonian boy, whether derived from his birth or from nature, is celebrated, in which nation they are accustomed to hunt carefully for the virtues; for when he had been carried off as a prisoner by some one of the soldiers of Antigonus, he submitted to whatever was put upon him which became a free man, but refused to submit to menial offices, saying that he was not going to be a slave; and yet by reason of his age he could not as yet have been thoroughly educated in the laws of Lycurgus, because he had only tasted them, but he judged a violent death preferable to the life which was before him, and, despairing of any deliverance, he cheerfully slew himself.

Notes on the current edition

Quod omnis probus liber sit

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2 ἀκήρατον coni. Mang. ἑαυτοῖς] αὐτοῖς AT ὃς] ὅσον F
3 ἀποφερόμενος AQT τοῖς] τῆς F 3.
4 ἐκ φιλοσοφίας] εἰς φιλοσοφίαν GH (Turn.)
5 εἱμαρμένης FG
6 φησιν F
7 ταὐτὰ δρῶντάς τε καὶ πάσχοντας M
8 τελευτήσειν AQT
10 εἴποι τις ἄν M: εἴποι ἄν τις ceteri (v) οὑν codd. (ἦν G): ὑπὲρ V μὲν χάριν M: om. ceteri (v)
11 εὐκλεὴς] εὐκλείης ἡ τελευτή] ἥδε λύπη M δ’ M πολὺ] πολλῶ Η (v)
12 ἐλευθερία AT ἧς] οἶς F μόνον] μᾶλλον F ἐνίδρυται εἰ δεῖ τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν H ἵδρυται M
13 ἡνωμένον codd. (Mang.): ἡνωμένων Turn. οὐ τῶν ἐπιτυχόντων om. in lac. G οὐ τῶν] οὗ τῶν ATP, αὐτῶν M post ἐπιτυχόντων add. ἔστιν AQT οὑ eras. F πᾶσαν T
14 ᾅδεται] εἴρηται AQT
15 ἔθος ἰχνηλατεῖν M: ἰχνηλατεῖν ἔθος ceteri (v) ἀρετὰς M: τὰς ἀρετὰς ceteri (v)
16 ἀπαχθεὶς codd.: ἀπήχθη v τῶν ἀντιγόνων M
17 ὑπέμενε M: ὑπέμενεν AQTP, ὑπέμεινεν FGH (Turn.) ταῖς δὲ δουλικαῖς M: ἐν
81 τοῖς δουλικοῖς H (Turn.), ὲν δὲ ταῖς δουλικαῖς ceteri
18 παγίοις M
19 ὅτι] ὅτι μὴ F τοῦ om. M ἀβιώτου βίου M: βιωτοῦ βίαιον PT, βιότου βίαιον AQH (v), βίου βίαιον FG

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9 Hom. II. Z 407.
14 sqq. Seneca Epist. 77,
14 exempla nunc magnorum virorum me tibi iudicas relaturum? puerorum referam. Lacon ille memoriae traditur impubis adhuc, qui captus clamabat ‘non serviam’ sua illa dorica lingua et fidem imposuit: ut primum iussus est servili fungi et contumelioso ministerio, . . inlisum parieti caput rupit.

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