Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 143

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[143] τῷ τότε ἀσπασαμένων. εἰ δὲ καὶ ποιηταῖς προσέχειν ἄξιον — διὰ τί δὲ οὐ μέλλομεν; παιδευταὶ γὰρ οὗτοί γε τοῦ σύμπαντος βίου, καθάπερ
ἰδίᾳ γονεῖς παῖδας καὶ οὗτοι δημοσίᾳ τὰς πόλεις σωφρονίζοντες —, οὐδ’ ἡ Ἀργὼ ναυαρχοῦντος Ἰάσονος ἐπέτρεπεν ἐπιβαίνειν οἰκέταις, ¹² μεμοιραμένη p. 468 M. ψυχῆς καὶ λογισμοῦ, φύσις οὖσα φιλελεύθερος. ὅθεν καὶ ὁ Αἰσχύλος ἐπ’ αὐτῆς εἶπε·

„ποῦ δ’ ἐστὶν Ἀργοῦς ἱερόν, αὔδασον, ξύλον;"

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 143 focus

[143] and if it may be allowed me at all to attend to what is said by the poets (and why should we not do so, for they are the instructors of the lives of all mankind, and just as individual parents are the instructors of their children, so too do they become so to the whole body of a city, correcting the entire population?), then I say that the Argo herself, when Jason was her captain, as if she were at that time endowed with a soul and with reasoning powers, did not permit any slaves to embark on board of her, since her nature was that of one devoted to freedom, on which account Aeschylus, with reference to her, says—

"And tell me where’s the sacred beam

That dared the dangerous Euxine stream?" ¹

Notes on the current edition

Quod omnis probus liber sit

1.
1 ἐπιτελούντων Α ὀίων] ὃν M
2 τύχοι ΑΗ (Turn.) τὴν om. AQT
4 τραγῳδίας AT
5 τὰ om. QT εὐριπίδι AP
6 τοὐλεύθερον γὰρ Stob.: τὸ ἐλευθερίας γάρ QT, τὸ γὰρ ἐλευθερίας Α, τὸ ἐλεύθερον γὰρ ceteri τ’ ἐλεύθερον γάρ v)
7 σμίκρ’] μικρὰ M, σμικρὸν AT, σμικρὰ ceteri μεγάλα MFHP νομιζέτω] νομίζεται Stob.
8 τοὺς θεατάς MG: τοὺς οὖν θεατὰς ceteri (v) ἅπαντας om. M εἶδον] ἦδον M ἐπ’ ἄκρων M: ἀπ’ ἄκρων ceteri ἀναστάντες ἐς corr. ex ος?) M
9 καὶ ante φωναῖς om. FQT ἐπαλλήλαις M, ἐπ’ ἀλλήλους T
10 καὶ om. AQT συνείροντες M, συνείροντος P
11 ἄγαμαι καὶ τὸ τῶν Ἀργοναυτῶν coni. Mang.
12 μηδὲ M: μήτε ex μηδὲ corr. H, μήτε ceteri (v) τῶν εἰς M: τῶν ἰδίας μήτε ἰῶν G. τῶν ἰδίας FP, τῆς ἰδίας HAQT (Turn.)
13 post ὑπηρεσίας add. ἕνεκα G προέμενοι M, προσιέμενοι FA δούλων G ἀδελφὴν MGQ: ἀδελφὸν ceteri (v) ἐλευθερία QT, ἐλεύθερον Α αὐτουργίαν M: λειτουργίαν ceteri (Turn.)
14 εἰ δὲ] εἴ γε G εἰ δὴ y) ποιητῆ AQT ἄξιον M: ὅσιον ceteri (Turn.)
15 δ’ M οὗτοί γε om. M, post τοῦ σύμπαντος transp. QT
16 ἰδίᾳ] οἷα M παῖδας M (coni. Mang.): παιδὸς ceteri (v) καὶ ante οὗτοι videtur delendum δημοσίᾳ om. T δημοσία τἀς πόλεις M: τὰς πόλεις δημοσία ceteri (v) σωφρονίζοντες Μ: σωφρονίζουσιν ceteri (v)
17 οὐδ’ ἡ] οὖ δὴ FHPT ἀργοναυταρχοῦντος HP ἀργοναυαρχοῦντος Turn.) ἐπέτρεπεν] επέγραπτεν (sic) F ἐπιβαίνειν ἐπιτρέπει οἰκέτην Α, οὐκ ἐπιτρέπει ἐπιβαίνειν οἰκέτην QT

2.
6 Eur. frg. 275, 3.
4 (ap. Stob. Ecl. IV 8, 3).

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 143

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