Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 140

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[140] διό μοι δοκοῦσιν οἱ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὀξυδερκέστατοι διάνοιαν Ἀθηναῖοι —
ὅπερ γὰρ ἐν ὀφθαλμῷ κόρη ἢ ἐν ψυχῇ λογισμός, τοῦτ’ ἐν Ἑλλάδι Ἀθῆναι — τὴν ἐπὶ ταῖς Σεμναῖς Θεαῖς πομπὴν ὅταν στέλλωσι, δοῦλον μηδένα προσπαραλαμβάνειν τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλὰ δι’ ἐλευθέρων ἕκαστα ¹² τῶν νενομισμένων ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν ἐπιτελεῖν, καὶ οὐχ οἵων ἂν τύχῃ, ἀλλὰ βίον ἐζηλωκότων ἀνεπίληπτον· ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἑορτὴν πέμματα τῶν ἐφήβων οἱ δοκιμώτατοι σιτοπονοῦσι, πρὸς εὐδοξίας καὶ τιμῆς, ὅπερ ἐστί, τὴν ὑπηρεσίαν τιθέμενοι.

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.) — 140 focus

[140] And it is for this reason that the most sharp-sighted of all the Greek nations, namely, the Athenians (for what the pupil is to the eye, or reasoning to the soul, that also is Athens to Greece), when they send out a solemn procession to the venerable goddesses, ¹ never allow any slave whatever to take any part in it, but perform everything concerning it by the agency of free men and women who are accustomed to such duties, even then not taking any chance persons, but only such as have cultivated a blameless innocence of life; since the most excellent of the youths prepare the cakes for the feast, looking upon that office as conducing (which indeed it does) to their credit and honour.

Notes on the current edition

Quod omnis probus liber sit

1.
1 paragraphos 136—143 ante paragraphum
32 transponendas esse coniecit ante τις add. εἴποι M ἀγνοεῖ om. M
3 δὲ M
4 τὸ] τὸ δὲ F μυρίοι] τινες AQT
5 προσφέροντες QT ἐπανατείνονται MP μήτ’ ἀφρόνων AT
6 τυγχάνοι Η
7 paragraphos 137—143 aliunde illatas esse censuit Massebieau δ’ Α κάλλος] κάκιον T δέ (post δουλείας) MQT: δ’ Α, τε ceteri
8 ἐν om. FGP
9 ἀθανατωτέρων M ερὶ
11 παρὰ F περὶ τίνος] περί τινος Mang.
12 κατὰ] καὶ τὰ MF 12.
13 πολεμοῦσι MP
13 ἀεὶ om. M, ante καὶ πολεμοῦσι transp. P ὅ τι μὴ] ἡ τὸ M, ὅτι χρὴ AP2
14 περιποιήσασθαι M κἀν] καὶ QT
16 ἀπωσόμεθα P
17 ἐλευθερίας om. et post περιίδωμεν add. τὸ δ’ ἔστιν ἐλευθερία P
19 ὀξυδορκέστατοι Ρ, ὀξυδερκέστεροι M τὴν διάνοιαν T
20 γάρ ss. F2 ὀφθαλμοῖς F ψυχαῖς P τοῦτο MA
21 ἀθηναῖοι Ρ2, ἀθῆναι οἱ M
22 προσπαραλαμβάνειν M: παραλαμβάνειν P, προσλαμβάνειν ceteri (v)

2.
2 Stob. Ecl. II 7,
11 g (de Stoicis) καθόλου δὲ τοῖς μέν σπουδαίοις πάντα τἀγαθὰ ὑπάρχειν, τοῖς δέ φαύλοις πάντα τά κακά.
21 Σεμναὶ Θεαί intellegendae sunt Demeter et Persephone: erat autem servis ad Thesmophoria aditus Athenis illicitus: Arist. Thesmophor. 294.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 140

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