Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 47

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[47] διὸ καὶ θαυμάσαι ἄν τις τῆς ἀμβλυωπίας τοὺς τρανὰς οὕτω πραγμάτων ἰδιότητας μὴ συνορῶντας, οἳ
μεγίστοις μὲν δήμοις Ἀθήναις καὶ Λακεδαίμονι πρὸς ἐλευθερίαν ¹² αὐταρκεστάτους εἶναί φασι τοὺς Σόλωνος καὶ Λυκούργου νόμους κρατοῦντάς τε καὶ ἄρχοντας, πειθαρχούντων αὐτοῖς τῶν πολιτευομένων, σοφοῖς δὲ ἀνδράσι τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον, ὃς καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐστὶ πηγὴ νόμοις, οὐχ ἱκανὸν εἶναι πρὸς μετουσίαν ἐλευθερίας ὑπακούουσι πάντων, ἅττ’ ἂν ἢ προστάττῃ ἢ ἀπαγορεύῃ.

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 47 focus

[47] On which account any one may reasonably marvel at the dim-sightedness of those who do not see the particular characters of things which are so clear, and who say that for those mighty nations of the Athenians and Lacedaemonians, the laws of Solon and Lycurgus are quite sufficient to ensure the liberty of the people if they only have the mastery and dominion, and if the people who live in those cities do dutifully obey them, and who yet affirm that right reason, which is the fountain from which all other laws do spring, is not sufficient for wise men to enable them to arrive at a participation in freedom, even though they obey it in all the particulars as to what it commands and what it prohibits.

Notes on the current edition

Quod omnis probus liber sit

1.
1 δὲ M τῶν ἰουδαίων ὁ νομοθέτης Μ γυμνῆς] γνησίας coni. Mang.
2 κατισχημένον MAQT
3 ἀλλὰ θεὸν M: om. ceteri (Turn.)
4 θεὸν] θεῶν M
5 καταλείπῃ HP (v) θεῶν MG: θεὸν ceteri (v) ; τούτων coni. Mang. βασιλεῖ καὶ θεῷ] βασιλέα καὶ θεὸν coni. Mang. ἆρ᾿ MFA: ἆρα ceteri (v) προνομίας] προνοίας AQT
6 ὃς] ὅπερ Q
7 καθ’ ἑαυτὸν G φίλον HP
8 ὑπέρμαχος] ὕπαρχος F
9 θεὸς om. AQT τὰ MF2: om. ceteri (Turn.) ἑτέρους A ἀφορῶν P
10 καὶ τυραννούμεναι om. AQT
11 τοὺς] τὰς F
13 ἐλεύθεροι MGT οὕτως MF: οὕτω ceteri (v) ὀργὴ M: ἂν ὀργὴ ceteri (v) 13.
14 ἢ ἐπιθυμία M: καὶ ἐπιθυμία ceteri (Turn.)
14 ἐπίβουλος] ἐπιβουλῆς F, ἐπιβουλὰς H1P, ἐπὶ βουλὰς G δυναστεύει M: δυναστεύσει AQT, δυναστεύσῃ FGHP (Turn.) πάντων M
15 δέ post νόμος om. M
16 ὁ om. Ρ1, ss. Ρ2 alterum τοῦ om. F φθαρτός] γραπτός F
17 ὑπὸ M
19 οὕτω] εἶναι M
20 ἀθήναις καὶ λακεδαίμονι MGPAQT: ἀθήναις καὶ Λακεδαίμοσι F, ἀθήναις καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι Η (sed οι add. Η2), ἀθηναίων καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων L (v) ἐλευθερίαν] εὐδαιμονίαν mg P

2.
3 Exod. 7,
1 ἰδοὺ δέδωκά σε θεόν Φαραώ.
15 sqq. Ambros. Epist. 37,
32 illi autem liberi sunt, qui legibus vivunt. lex autem vera sermo rectus, lex vera non insculpta tabulis nec aere incisa, sed impressa mentibus atque infixa sensibus. cf. de migr. Abrah. § 130. de Josepho § 29. de praem. et poen. § 55. Stob. Ecl. II 7,
11 d. Cic. de leg. I 6, 18.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 47

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