Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 22

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[22] ἔμαθε γὰρ ἀλογεῖν ἐπιταγμάτων, ὅσα οἱ ψυχῆς παρανομώτατοι ἄρχοντες ἐπιτάττουσι,
διὰ ζῆλον καὶ πόθον ἐλευθερίας, ἧς τὸ αὐτοκέλευστον καὶ ἐθελουργὸν κλῆρος ἴδιος. ἐπαινεῖται παρά τισιν ὁ τὸ τρίμετρον ἐκεῖνο ποιήσας

„τίς δ’ ἐστὶ δοῦλος τοῦ θανεῖν ἄφροντις ὤν;“

ὡς μάλα συνιδὼν τὸ ἀκόλουθον· ὑπέλαβε γάρ, ὅτι οὐδὲν οὕτως δουλοῦσθαι ¹² πέφυκε διάνοιαν, ὡς τὸ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ δέος, ἕνεκα τοῦ πρὸς τὸ ζῆν ἱμέρου.

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.) — 22 focus

[22] For he has learnt to disregard all the commands which those most unlawful masters of the soul seek to impose upon him, out of his admiration and desire for freedom, of which independence and spontaneousness of action are the most especial and inalienable inheritance; and by some persons the poet is praised who composed this iambic—

"No man’s a slave who does not fear to die,"

¹ as having had an accurate idea of the consequences of such courage; for he conceived that nothing is so calculated to enslave the mind as a fear of death, arising from an excessive desire of living.

Notes on the current edition

Quod omnis probus liber sit

1.
1 διάνοιαν] γνώμην vel ἔννοιαν coni. Mang. τῶν] τὴν Η2 (Turn.) ἡγεμών M: ἡγεμονίαν ceteri (Turn.) ἐπιτετραμένος M τῶν περιγείων Η2 (Turn.)
2 ἀρχῆς] τῆς ἀρχῆς ΗΡ (v)
3 τοῦ σοφοῦ M: om. ceteri (Turn.) ἐπιτηδειότατον Α ὑποκείσθω QT 4—6 τὰ νῦν—ἐλευθερίᾳ om.
4 τὰ νῦν] τὰ om. P
5 ἄλλῳ om. MA
6 εὐγενὲς Α οὕτως om. M ἐλευθερίας Α τῶν φαύλων M
7 καὶ φιληδονία F
8 ἐπανισταμένω M: ἐπανεσταλμένω FGHP, ἐπανεσταλμένον AQT καὶ ἐπιβεβηκότι MF: κατεπιβεβηκότι ceteri ἄθλων] ἀθλητῶν conicio, cf. 8,
5 ἐν ἀγῶνι παγκρατιαστῶν ἀγῶνι τοῖς] ἀγωνιστοῖς L; ἀγωνισταῖς v
9 ὁμοτρόποις M
10 ἀλογεῖν] ἄλλο F
11 ἧς] οἷς Α
12 τὸ τρίμετρον] τὸ τριμερὲς QT, τό τρίτον μέρος G τό om. Mang.
13 τίς δ’ ἐστὶ scripsi (cf. testim.): τίς γάρ ἐστι codd.; τίς ἔπι v ὤν om. AQT
14 ἀπέλαβε T οὕτως M: οὕτω ceteri (v)

2.
6 cf. Diog. La. VII 121 εἶναι γὰρ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἐξουσίαν αὐτοπραγίας, τὴν δὲ δουλείαν στέρησιν αὐτοπραγίας.
7 cf. Plut. Stoic. repugn.
83 οὐδεὶς γάρ φύεται ἀνθρώποις πόλεμος ἄνευ κακίας· ἀλλὰ τὸν μὲν φιληδονία, τὸν δὲ πλεονεξία, τόν δὲ φιλοδοξία τις ἢ φιλαρχία συρρήγνυσιν.
8 Ambros. Epist. 37,30 . . . insurgit enim sapiens quasi victor debellatis a se ac triumphatis libidini, timori, ignaviae, maestitudini ceterisque vitiis, donec ea de possessione suae mentis eliminet et omnibus terminis finibusque suis propulset atque arceat.
10 cf. Cic. Parad. V
1 refrenet primum libidines, . . . ceteras animi labes repellat, tum incipiat aliis imperare, cum ipse improbissimis dominis, dedecori ac turpitudini, parere desierit. Seneca Epist. 37,4 humilis res est stultitia, abiecta, sordida, servilis, multis affectibus et saevissimis subiecta. hos tam graves dominos, interdum alternis imperantes interdum pariter, dimittit a te sapientia, quae sola libertas est.
13 Eur. frg. 958 laud. a Chrysippo ap. Plut. de aud. poet.
13 τίς δ’ ἐστὶ δοῦλος τοῦ θανεῖν ἄφροντις ὤν. cf. Plut. de consol. ad Apollon. 10. Clem. Alex. Strom. IV
7 p. 586 P. Cic. ad Att. IX 2a, 2.
14 cf. Epict. Diss. III 26,
38 ἆρ’ οὑν ἐνθυμῇ, ὅτι κεφάλαιον τοῦτο πάντων τῶν κακῶν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ ἀγεννείας καὶ δειλίας οὐ θάνατός ἐστι, μᾶλλον δ’ ὁ τοῦ θανάτου φόβος;

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