Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 12

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[12] χρῆν δὲ αὐτούς, ¹² εἴπερ ὅλως ἐζήλουν ἀλήθειαν, μὴ τῶν τὰ σώματα καμνόντων ἐν τῷ φρονεῖν ἐλαττοῦσθαι· ἐκεῖνοι μὲν γὰρ ἑαυτοὺς ἐπιτρέπουσιν ἰατροῖς ὑγείας ὀρεγόμενοι, κατοκνοῦσι δ’ οὗτοι νόσον ψυχῆς, ἀπαιδευσίαν, ἀπώσασθαι, γενόμενοι σοφῶν ἀνδρῶν ὁμιληταί, παρ’ ὧν οὐ μόνον ἔστιν ἀπομαθεῖν ἀμαθίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἴδιον ἀνθρώπου κτῆμα προσλαβεῖν, ἐπιστήμην.

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.) — 12 focus

[12] But they ought, if they had really been at all anxious for the truth, not to show themselves, in respect of their minds, inferior to those who have been diseased in their bodies; for such invalids, out of their desire for good health, commit themselves to the physicians. But these other men hesitate to get rid of that disease of the soul, ignorance, by becoming the associates of wise men; from whom they might not only learn to escape ignorance, but they might also acquire that peculiar possession of man, namely, knowledge.

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Quod omnis probus liber sit

1.
1 κατὰ στειχόντων MA, καταστιχόντων P (Turn.) 1.
2 δι’ αὐτῶν M
2 δ’ M
3 λέγω] λέγειν GAQT
4 οὐδ’] οὐκ QT
5 ἐνδεεῖς] ἐπιδεεῖς HP (v) λυπηρῶς M (Mang.)
6 ἐκπορίζοντας] εὐπορίζοντας F, κομίζοντας H (v) ἐν] ἢ T
7 κοινῇ] πολλὴ M αὔραις M ἀέρος Α, ἀέρι om. QT, δρόσῳ coni. Mang.
8 τοὺς] τῶν ἐν QT 8.
9 κτημάτων] χρημάτων Α
11 οἰκίας] οἰκείας FH2 11.
12 δ’ ἔτι] δέ τι Η (v), τὲ (om. δ’) M
12 εἰρήνην M πόλεμον M
13 δὲ] γὰρ M
14 μόνον M: μόνοι ceteri (v)
15 alterum πρὸς om. Α ἐτόλμησαν M: ἐπετόλμησαν ceteri (v)
16 τριγονίας MFG: τριγενείας ceteri (v) στιγματίαις] μαστιγίαις QT, ἐπηματίοισ M πεδότριψι MG (Wilamowitz): παιδότριψι ceteri (v) ; οἰκότριψι coni. Mang. παλαιοδούλοις] παλιμβόλοις coni. Wilamowitz, sed cf. § 147
17 ἀνθρώπων] ἀνδρῶν M
19 δεκαζόμενον v (Turn.): δικαζόμενον codd. ἀβέβαιον] οὐ βέβαιον Α ἐχρῆν AQT δ’ GA

2.
7 Philo de vita contempl. §
35 . . . ἐθισθέντες, ὥσπερ φασὶ τὸ τῶν τεττίγων γένος, ἀέρι τρέφεσθαι. cf. Plat. Phaedr. 259 c . . . ἐξ ὧν τὸ τεττίγων γένος μετ’ ἐκεῖνο φύεται, γέρας τοῦτο παρὰ Μουσῶν λαβόν, μηδὲν τροφῆς δεῖσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἄσιτόν τε καὶ ἄποτον εὐθὺς γενόμενον ἅδειν, ἕως ἄν τελευτήσῃ. Theocr. IV
16 μὴ πρῶκας σιτίζεται ὥσπερ ὁ τέττιξ. Vergil. Ecl. V
77 dumque thymo pascentur apes, dum rore cicadae. Plin. Nat. Hist, XI
91 Chamaeleonum stelliones qui quodam modo naturam habent, rore tantum viventes praeterque araneis, (92) Similis cicadis vita.

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