Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 144

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[144] Ἐπανατάσεων δὲ καὶ ἀπειλῶν, ἃς σοφοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἐπανατείνονται
καὶ ἀπειλοῦσί τινες, ἥκιστα φροντιστέον καὶ τὰ ὅμοια λεκτέον Ἀντιγενίδᾳ τῷ αὐλητῇ. καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνόν φασιν, ἐπειδή τις τῶν ἀντιτέχνων ὀργισθεὶς εἶπεν "ὠνήσομαί σε,“ βαθεῖ ἤθει φάναι· „κἀγὼ τοιγαροῦν διδάξω σε αὐλεῖν.“

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.) — 144 focus

[144] And we must not pay the slightest attention to threats and menaces which some persons hold out over even wise men, but we must say as Antigonides the flute-player did; for it is related that he, when one of his rivals in art being angry with him, said to him, "I will buy you for a slave," said with very profound wit, "Then I will teach you to play the flute;"

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