Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 115

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[115] λέγεται δὲ καὶ πρὸς Μακεδόνων ἁλούσας Δαρδανίδας γυναῖκας αἴσχιστον κακὸν δουλείαν ὑπολαβούσας οὓς ἐκουροτρόφουν παῖδας εἰς τὸ βαθύτατον τοῦ ποταμοῦ ῥίπτειν ἐπιφωνούσας· „ἀλλ’ ὑμεῖς γε οὐ
δουλεύσετε, πρὶν δ’ ἄρξασθαι βίου βαρυδαίμονος, τὸ χρεὼν ἐπιτεμόντες ἐλεύθεροι τὴν ἀναγκαίαν καὶ πανυστάτην ὁδὸν περαιώσεσθε.“

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.) — 115 focus

[115] It is also related that some Dardanian women who had been taken prisoners by the Macedonians, looking upon slavery as the most disgraceful of all evils, threw their children, whom they were carrying in their bosoms, into the deepest part of the river, saying at the same time, "At all events you shall not be slaves, but, before you can begin to experience such a miserable life, you shall cut off all such necessity, and travel in freedom the inevitable and last road of human existence."

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