Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 2

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[2] τὸν μὲν οὖν τῶν Πυθαγορείων ἱερώτατον θίασον λόγος ἔχει μετὰ πολλῶν καὶ ἄλλων καλῶν καὶ τοῦτ’ ἀναδιδάσκειν, "ταῖς λεωφόροις μὴ βαδίζειν ὁδοῖς“, οὐχ ἵνα κρημνοβατῶμεν — οὐ γὰρ ποσὶ κάματον
παρήγγελλεν —, ἀλλ’ αἰνιττόμενος διὰ συμβόλου τὸ μήτε λόγοις μήτ’ ἔργοις δημώδεσι καὶ πεπατημένοις χρῆσθαι.

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.) — 2 focus

[2] Now it is said, that the most sacred sect of the Pythagoreans, among many other excellent doctrines, taught this one also, that it was not well to proceed by the plain ordinary roads, not meaning to urge us to walk among precipices (for it was not their object to weary our feet with labour), but intimating, by a figurative mode of speech, that we ought not, either in respect of our words or actions, to use only such as are ordinary and unchanged;

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