Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 38

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[38] ἤδη δέ τινες καὶ προσυπερβάλλοντες εἰς τοὐναντίον περιήγαγον
τὸ πρᾶγμα, δεσπόται γενόμενοι τῶν πριαμένων ἀντὶ δούλων· ἔγωγ’ οὖν ἐθεασάμην πολλάκις εὔμορφα παιδισκάρια καὶ φύσει στωμύλα δυσὶν ὁρμητηρίοις, ὄψεως κάλλει καὶ τῇ περὶ λόγους χάριτι, πορθοῦντα τοὺς κεκτημένους· ἑλεπόλεις γὰρ ταῦτα ψυχῶν ἀνιδρύτων καὶ ἀνερματίστων, μηχανημάτων ἁπάντων ὅσα ἐπ’ ἀνατροπῇ τειχῶν κατασκευάζεται σθεναρώτερα.

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.) — 38 focus

[38] And, before now, some persons in the excess of their confidence have brought matters into so completely altered a condition that they have actually become masters instead of slaves, in spite of having been bought. At all events, I have often seen some young persons of great beauty, and of great wit in conversation, getting the complete mastery over those who had purchased them, by two great incentives, the exquisiteness of their beauty and the elegance of their language; for these are engines able to overthrow any soul which wants stability and a solid foundation, being the most powerful of all the contrivances which were ever invented for the overthrow of cities.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 38

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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