Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 121

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[121] καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος τῶν Εὐρυσθέως ἐπιταγμάτων διεφάνη κρείττων. ὁ γοῦν κυνικὸς φιλόσοφος Διογένης ὕψει καὶ μεγέθει τοσούτῳ φρονήματος
ἐχρήσατο, ὥσθ’ ἁλοὺς ὑπὸ λῃστῶν, ἐπεὶ γλίσχρως καὶ μόλις τὰς ἀναγκαίας αὐτῷ παρεῖχον τροφάς, οὔθ’ ὑπὸ τῆς παρούσης τύχης γναμφθεὶς οὔτε τὴν ὠμότητα τῶν ὑπηγμένων δείσας "ἀτοπώτατον οὖν“ ἔφη "γίνεται, δελφάκια μὲν ἢ προβάτια, ὁπότε μέλλοι πιπράσκεσθαι, τροφαῖς ¹² ἐπιμελεστέραις πιαίνειν εἰς εὐσαρκίαν, ζῴων δὲ τὸ ἄριστον, ἄνθρωπον, ἀσιτίαις κατασκελετευθέντα καὶ συνεχέσιν ἐνδείαις ἐπευωνίζεσθαι.“

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.)

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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.) — 121 focus

[121] Accordingly the Cynic philosopher, Diogenes, exhibited such a loftiness and greatness of spirit, that when he was taken prisoner by some robbers, and when they fed him very sparingly, and scarcely gave him even necessary food, he was not weighed down by the circumstances which surrounded him, and did not fear the inhumanity of the masters into whose power he had fallen, but said "that it was a most absurd thing for pigs or sheep, when they were going to be sold, to be carefully provided with abundant food, so as to be rendered fat and fleshy; but for the most excellent of all animals, man, to be reduced to a skeleton by bad food and continual scarcity, and so to be rendered of less value than before."

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Quod omnis probus liber sit

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1 F ξανθίους Η: ξανθία FGP, ξανθίσας M, ξανθὸν AQT
2 ἐπιτιθεμένων F ἐπιὼν AQT: σκηπίων M, καὶ ἐπιὼν ceteri (v)
3 δουλείαν add. Mang., om. codd. 4.
5 ἦν αὐτῶ καῖσαρ M: αὐτῶ καῖσαρ ἦν ceteri (v)
5 post μὲν add. αὐτῶ AQT τ’ Α
6 ὐπανελόμενοι P δ’ Α ἔτ’ ἀντεῖχον F2: ἐπαντεῖχον M, ἔτ’ ἀντισχὸν F1GH (v), ἔτ’ ἀνίσχον P, ἔτ’ ἀνεῖχον QT, ἔτ’ ἀνέχον Α ὡς δ’ Μ
7 ἐδαπάνησαν M: ἐδαπανήθησαν ceteri (v)
8 τὰ σφάγια νήσαντες] ἐφοδιάσαντες M νήσαντες] στήσαντες H (Turn.), θύσαντες L
9 ἐνιέντες M ἐπικαταφλέξαντες F
10 ἐλευθέρου καὶ εὐγενοῦς M: εὐγενοῦς καὶ ἐλευθέρου ceteri (v) ἐξέπλησαν] ἐξέπλησαν Η ἐξέτλησαν v), ἐξεσύλησαν M: ἐξετέλεσαν coni. Mang.
12 μετ’ εὐκλείας] σὺν εὐκλεία M ᾑροῦντο] ἡγοῦντο AT δ’ M τὰ πράγματα ζῆν transp. M
13 τλητικῶς corr. ε ο ex πληκτικῶς A ὑπέμειναν Η
14 τῶν om. F εὐρυσθέος P ἐπιταγμάτων om. M ἐφάνη P
15 γοῦν] γὰρ T, δὲ Α ὕψει] ὄψει L (Turn.) τοσούτου MFA
16 ἐχρήσατο] ἐγεύσατο Α ὥσθ’ ἁλοὺς ὑπὸ ληστῶν] ὥστ’ ἄλλους ὑποπλήττων M γλίσχρως om. M μόλις scripsi (cf. M): μόγις codd. (v) μόλις τὰς] μάλιστ᾿ M
17 αὐτῶ παρεῖχον MA: αὐτῷ om. T, παρεῖχον αὐτῶ ceteri (v) γναμφθεὶς M: καμφθεὶς ceteri (Turn.)
18 οὖν MPQ: om. ceteri (Turn.) γίγνεται M
19 πρόβατα F μέλλει QT

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1 sqq. cf. Appian. Bell. civ. IV 76—80. Cass. Dio 47, 34.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 121

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