Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 15

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[15] οἱ πολέμιοι ¹² τί πλέον δρῶσιν ἢ κείρουσι καὶ δενδροτομοῦσι τὴν τῶν ἀντιπάλων χώραν, ἵνα σπάνει τῶν ἀναγκαίων πιεσθέντες ἐνδῶσι; τοῦτο οἱ περὶ Δημόκριτον τοῖς ἀφ’ αἵματος εἰργάσαντο χειροποίητον ἔνδειαν καὶ πενίαν αὐτοῖς κατασκευάσαντες, οὐκ ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς ἴσως, ἀλλὰ τῷ μὴ προϊδέσθαι καὶ περιαθρῆσαι τὸ τοῖς ἄλλοις συμφέρον.

De Vita Contemplativa. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

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De Vita Contemplativa (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 15 focus

[15] For what more can enemies do than ravage, and destroy, and cut down all the trees in the country of their antagonists, that they may be forced to submit by reason of the extent to which they are oppressed by want of necessaries? And yet Democritus did this to his own blood relations, inflicting artificial want and penury upon them, not perhaps from any hostile intention towards them, but because he did not foresee and provide for what was advantageous to others.

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De vita contemplativa

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1 τό θεραπευτικὸν δὲ Η προδιδασκόμενον Conybeare (p. 200): προσδιδασκόμενον codd. (v)
2 ἀφιέσθω M αἰσθητὸν] νοητὸν Arm
3 δ’ AH
4 οὔτ’ (bis) FA οὔτε ἐκ] ἢ C παραινέσεως ἢ παρακλήσεως CFGA Lat: παρακλήσεως ἢ παραινέσεων M (Mang.), παραινέσεως ἢ om. HP (Turn.), ἢ παρακλήσεως om. Arm
5 ἀναρπασθέντες Α
6 μέχρι C
7 καὶ μακαρίας om. Arm ἵμερον ex ἥμερον corr. F2
8 ἤδη om. Arm 8.
9 οἱοῖς—ἄλλοις om. Arm
9 προκληρονομούμενοι Arm, praehereditati Lat: προσκληρονομούμενοι codd. (v) ῶν ῶν
10 μὴ] μηδὲ Α
11 τὸν τυφλόν M
12 Ἕλληνες om. M
13 ἱμέρω φιλοσοφίας transp. Α πλησθέντες Α μηλοβότας Α
14 αὐτὸς MA Arm (Mang. Conyb.): αὐτοὺς ceteri Lat γινομένους Α κρείττους C (v)
15 βελτίονες] κρείττονες HP
16 ἀνθρώπων] ἀνθρωπίνας M
17 μὴ] μὴ μόνον HP (v)
18 ἡ ἑλλὰς οὓς transp. Α ἡ om. F
19 νηφάλιόν τε καὶ M μετὰ om. M περιττῆς] περὶ(??) ἧς C, περὶ ἧς G, γρ. περὶ ἧς P, περιττῆς. περὶ ἧς M

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8 Euseb. Hist. eccl. II 17,
5 ὅμως δ’ οὖν ἐν πρώτοις τὴν ἀπόταξιν αὐτοῖς τῆς οὐσίας μαρτυρεῖ, φάσκων ἀρχομένους φιλοσοφεῖν ἐξίστασθαι τοῖς προσήκουσι τῶν ὑπαρχόντων.
12 cf. Philo de provid. II § 12. 13. Plat. Hipp. mai. 283a. Plut. Pericl. 16. de vitando aere alieno
8 p. 831 f. Cic. Tusc. V 114. Diog. La. II 6. Suid. Ἀναξαγόρας. de Democrito: Cic. de fin. V 87. Hor. Epist. I 12. 12. Lactant. Inst. div. III 23. Orig. c. Cels. II 84.

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