Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 86

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[86] εἶτ’
ἐστὶ ταμεῖον ἓν πάντων καὶ δαπάναι κοιναί, καὶ κοιναὶ μὲν ἐσθῆτες, κοιναὶ δὲ τροφαὶ συσσίτια πεποιημένων· τὸ γὰρ ὁμωρόφιον ἢ ὁμοδίαιτον ¹² ἢ ὁμοτράπεζον οὐκ ἄν τις εὕροι παρ’ ἑτέροις μᾶλλον ἔργῳ βεβαιούμενον· p. 459 M. καὶ μήποτ’ εἰκότως· ὅσα γὰρ ἂν μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἐργασάμενοι λάβωσιν ἐπὶ μισθῷ, ταῦτ’ οὐκ ἴδια φυλάττουσιν, ἀλλ’ εἰς μέσον προτιθέντες κοινὴν τοῖς ἐθέλουσι χρῆσθαι τὴν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν παρασκευάζουσιν ὠφέλειαν.

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.) — 86 focus

[86] then there is one magazine among them all; their expenses are all in common; their garments belong to them all in common; their food is common, since they all eat in messes; for there is no other people among which you can find a common use of the same house, a common adoption of one mode of living, and a common use of the same table more thoroughly established in fact than among this tribe: and is not this very natural? For whatever they, after having been working during the day, receive for their wages, that they do not retain as their own, but bring it into the common stock, and give any advantage that is to be derived from it to all who desire to avail themselves of it;

Notes on the current edition

Quod omnis probus liber sit

1.
1 ἀναδιδάσκει] ἀναγινώσκει HP1 (Turn.) ζηλώσει] ζήλω AT
2 δέ] τε M εὐσέβειαν om. HP (Turn.)
3 πολιτείας Α καὶ ἐπιστήμην Eus codd. plerique
4 ὅροις] νόμοις Eus
5 τῶ τοῦ φιλοθέου καὶ φιλαρέτου καὶ φιλανθρώπου M φιλανθρώπῳ καὶ φιλαρέτῳ transp. PQT 6.
7 δείγματα μυρία παρέχει ἡ παρ’ ὅλον τὸν βίον συνεχὴς καὶ ἐπάλληλος ἁγνεία Eus
7 ἐπάλληλον] ἀμετάλληλον AT
10 ὀλιγόδειαν Α: ὀλιγοδεεΐαν (sic) Η, ὀλιγοδέειαν P Eus, ὀλιγόδειαν FGQT (v), ὀλίγον εἶναι M ἀφέλειαν] φιλίαν M τὸ νόμιμον] τὸ κόσμιον coni. Mang.
11 post φιλανθρώπου add. δείγματα Eus codd. nonnulli (Mang.) 11.
12 εὔνοια, ἰσότης, ἡ παντὸς λόγου κρείττων κοινωνία Eus codd. nonnulli
12 τὴν om. HP1 (Turn.)
13 τοίνυν] οὖν Eus codd. nonnulli οὐδενὸς] οὐδενὸς ἑνὸς Eus οὐδενός ἐστιν οἰκία ἰδία (om. τις) M
14 πάντων εἶναι κοινὴν Eus: καὶ πάντων M, πάντων εἶναι ceteri (v) πρὸς] καὶ M γὰρ] δὲ Α τῶ FGH1PQ Eus: τὸ MATH2 συνοικεῖν] συνοικία M
16 καὶ δαπάναι—ἐσθῆτες om. M κοιναὶ post δαπάναι addidi
17 συσσίτια] συνιάται (sic) M ὁμορόφιον M ἡ ὁμοδίαιτον om. M

2.
14 Joseph. Bell. Jud. II § 124 . . . καὶ τοῖς ἑτέρωθεν ἥκουσιν αἱρετισταῖς πάντ’ ἀναπέπταται τὰ παρ’ αὐτοῖς ὁμοίως ὥσπερ ἴδια, καὶ πρὸς οὑς οὐ πρότερον εἶδον εἰσίασιν ὡς συνηθεστάτους.
16 sqq. Joseph. Bell. Jud. II § 122 καταφρονηταὶ δὲ πλούτου· καὶ θαυμάσιον αὐτοῖς τὸ κοινωνικόν, οὐδὲ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν κτήσει τὶν παρ’ αὐτοῖς ὑπερέχοντα νόμος γὰρ τοὺς εἰς τὴν αἵρεσιν εἰσιόντας δημεύειν τῷ τάγματι τὴν οὐσίαν, ὥστε ἐν ἅπασιν μήτε πενίας ταπεινότητα φαίνεσθαι μήθ’ ὑπεροχὴν πλούτου, τῶν δ’ ἑκάστου κτημάτων ἀναμεμιγμένων μίαν ὥσπερ ἀδελφοῖς ἅπασιν οὐσίαν εἶναι. Antiqu. XVIII §
20 . . . τά χρήματά τε κοινά ἐστιν αὐτοῖς, ἀπολαύει δέ οὐδὲν ὁ πλούσιος τῶν οἰκείων μειζόνως ἢ ὁ μηδ’ ὁτιοῦν κεκτημένος.

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