Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 130

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[130] καθάπερ γὰρ Σεμέλης, ἡνίκα Διόνυσον ἐκύει, τὸν ὡρισμένον ἄχρι τῆς p. 466 Μ. ἀποτέξεως χρόνον ἐνεγκεῖν οὐ δυνηθείσης, καταπλαγεὶς Ζεὺς τὴν τοῦ
κατὰ γαστρὸς φύσιν ἠλιτόμηνον ἐξελκύσας ἰσότιμον τοῖς οὐρανίοις ἀπέφηνε θεοῖς, οὕτω κἀμέ, τῆς πατρίδος βραχυτέρας οὔσης ἢ ὥστε δέξασθαι φιλοσόφου φρονήματος ὄγκον τοσοῦτον, δαίμων τις ἢ θεὸς ἀναστήσας εἰς εὐτυχέστερον τόπον Ἀθήνας ἀποικίσαι διενοήθη.“

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

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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.) — 130 focus

[130] for as when Semele, at the time that she was pregnant with Bacchus, was unable to bear her offspring until the appointed time for her delivery, Jupiter pitied her, and saved from the flames the offspring which she bore in her womb, being as yet imperfect, and granted it equal honours with the heavenly deities, so also some deity, or some god, has made me leave my country by reason of its being too narrow to contain the ample burden of a philosophic mind, and decided on transporting me to a place more fortunate than Athens, and settling me there."

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 130

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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