Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 138

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[138]
βουλαί τε γὰρ καὶ ἐκκλησίαι καθ’ ἑκάστην σχεδὸν ἡμέραν ἀθροίζονται περὶ τίνος μᾶλλον ἢ ἐλευθερίας παρούσης μὲν βεβαιώσεως, εἰ δ’ ἀπείη, κτήσεως; ἡ δ’ Ἑλλὰς καὶ βάρβαρος κατὰ ἔθνη στασιάζουσι καὶ πολεμοῦσιν ἀεὶ τί βουλόμεναι ὅ τι μὴ δουλείαν μὲν ἀποδιδράσκειν, ἐλευθερίαν δὲ περιποιεῖσθαι;

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.) — 138 focus

[138] for, for what other object are councils and assemblies convened nearly every day, rather than about freedom, with a view to the confirmation of it if it is present, and to the acquisition of it if it is absent? And what other object have Greece and the nations of the barbarians ever had in all the continual seditions and wars which have taken place among or between those peoples, except to avoid slavery, and to obtain liberty?

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