Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 54

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[54] οἶδ’ ὅτι πολλοὶ τοῦ λόγου
κατακερτομήσουσιν ὡς αὐθαδείᾳ τὸ πλέον ἐρωτηθέντος ἢ συνέσει. μετὰ δὲ τὴν χλεύην παυσάμενοι τοῦ γέλωτος ἢν ἐθελήσωσι διακύψαι καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον σαφῶς ἐρευνῆσαι, καταπλαγέντες αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀψευδὲς εἴσονται, ὅτι ἐπ’ οὐδενὶ μᾶλλον οἰμώξεταί τις ἢ τῷ μὴ πειθαρχεῖν τῷ σοφῷ.

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.) — 54 focus

[54] I know that many persons will rail at this assertion as one which is dictated rather by self-conceit than by real wisdom. But if, after they have desisted from mocking and ridiculing it, they will condescend to investigate the matter and to examine clearly into what is really said, then, recognising and admiring its perfect truth, they will become aware that there is nothing for which a man will suffer more than for disregarding the words of a wise man.

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