Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 99

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[99] ἴδε γοῦν οἷα παρ’ Εὐριπίδῃ φησὶν ὁ Ἡρακλῆς·

p. 461 M. "πίμπρα, κάταιθε σάρκας, ἐμπλήσθητί μου

πίνων κελαινὸν αἷμα· πρόσθε γὰρ κάτω

γῆς εἶσιν ἄστρα γῆ τ’ ἄνεις’ εἰς αἰθέρα,

πρὶν ἐξ ἐμοῦ σοι θῶπ’ ἀπαντῆσαι λόγον.“

τῷ γὰρ ὄντι θωπεία μὲν καὶ κολακεία καὶ ὑπόκρισις, ἐν οἷς λόγοι γνώμαις διαμάχονται, δουλοπρεπέστατα, τὸ δὲ ἀνόθως καὶ γνησίως ἐκ
καθαροῦ τοῦ συνειδότος ἐλευθεροστομεῖν εὐγενέσιν ἁρμόττον.

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.) — 99 focus

[99] accordingly just see what Hercules says in Euripides. ¹

"Yes, burn and scorch my flesh, and glut your hate,

Drinking my life-warm blood; for heaven’s stars

Shall quit their place, and darken ’neath the earth,

And earth rise up and take the place of heaven,

Before you wring from me a word of flattery."

For in real truth flattery, and adulation, and hypocrisy, in which what is uttered is at variance with the sentiments which are really felt, are the most slavish of things. But without any disguise, and in a genuine honest spirit of truth to speak with freedom what is dictated by a clear conscience, is a line of conduct suited to those who are nobly born.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 99

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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