Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 151

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[151] καὶ μὴν τοῖς μὲν εἰς ἀσύλους τόπους καταφεύγουσιν, ἐκ μόνων τῶν τόπων περιπεποιημένοις ἀσφάλειαν, ἐκ μυρίων
ἄλλων ἀγωγίμοις συμβέβηκε γίνεσθαι, δώρων γυναικός, ἀδοξίας τέκνων, ἔρωτος ἀπάτης, τοῖς δὲ εἰς ἀρετὴν ὥσπερ εἰς ἀκαθαίρετον καὶ ἐρυμνότατον τεῖχος ἀλογεῖν βλημάτων, ὧν αἱ ἐφεδρεῖαι τῶν παθῶν βάλλουσι καὶ τοξεύουσι. ταύτῃ τις πεφραγμένος τῇ

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.) — 151 focus

[151] And, indeed, in the case of those who take refuge in places which are looked upon as asylums, seeking security only in the places themselves, it constantly happens to such persons to be much influenced by a great variety of other circumstances, by the corruption of their wives, the loss of reputation by their children, and the deceitfulness of love, while those who take refuge in virtue, as in a strong and indestructible and invincible fortification, disregard all attacks which the treachery of the passions aims and directs against them.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 151

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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