Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 17

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[17] τοῦτό μοι δοκεῖ καὶ Ὅμηρος αἰνίξασθαι ἐν Ἰλιάδι κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς τρισκαιδεκάτης ῥαψῳδίας διὰ τούτων τῶν ἐπῶν·

„Μυσῶν τ’ ἀγχεμάχων καὶ ἀγαυῶν Ἱππημολγῶν,

γλακτοφάγων ἀβίων τε, δικαιοτάτων ἀνθρώπων,“

ὡς τῆς μὲν περὶ βίον σπουδῆς καὶ χρηματισμὸν ἀδικίαν γεννώσης διὰ τὸ ἄνισον, δικαιοσύνην δὲ τῆς ἐναντίας προαιρέσεως ἕνεκα ἰσότητος, καθ’ ἣν ὁ τῆς φύσεως πλοῦτος ὥρισται καὶ παρευημερεῖ τὸν ἐν ταῖς κεναῖς δόξαις. ¹²³ ὅταν οὖν ἐκστῶσι τῶν οὐσιῶν,

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 17 focus

[17] And this is what Homer appears to me to imply figuratively in the Iliad, at the beginning of the thirteenth book, by the following lines, —

"The Mysian close-fighting bands,

And dwellers on the Scythian lands,

Content to seek their humble fare

From milk of cow and milk of mare,

The justest of mankind."

¹ As if great anxiety concerning the means of subsistence and the acquisition of money engendered injustice by reason of the inequality which it produced, while the contrary disposition and pursuit produced justice by reason of its equality, according to which it is that the wealth of nature is defined, and is superior to that which exists only in vain opinion.

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De vita contemplativa

1.
1 τί πλέον om. M δρῶσιν] ποιοῦσιν Α ἢ κείρουσι om. in lac. M κείρουσι] καίουσι A
2 ἐνδῶσιν C
3 ἑαυτοῖς F
4 μὴ om. F προίεσθαι Α
5 δὴ] δ’ ἂν A οὗτοι κρείττους transp. A
6 ταῖς] τοῖς Η φιλοσοφίαν] φαντασίαν CG mg F, φιλοσοφίαν mg C2 ὁρμαῖς] ὁρῶσι H
8 τοὺς Arm Lat (Conyb.): καὶ τοὺς codd. (v)
9 ἐν τῷ om. C
10 ἐπιμέλειαι] ἐπιθυμίαι Max. χρόνους] χρωμένους ΗΡ1 Arm (Conyb.)
11 ἰατρὸν om. Arm
12 αἰνίξεσθαι HP, αἰνίττεσθαι Α
13 κατ’ ἀρχὴν F ιγ΄ M διά] καὶ Η
15 τὲ M, τ’ om F ἀγαυῶν] ἀγανῶν C, ἀγαθῶν HP
16 γαλακτοφάγων MAHP, γλαγοφάγων G τ’ ἀβίων τε C ante δικαιοτάτων add. καὶ MH τ’ ἀνθρώπων F
17 περὶ om. F1, ss. F2 περὶ τὸν βίον Α καὶ ἀδικίαν Α, καὶ ss. Ρ2 διὰ] καὶ Α
18 δικαιοσύνης F ante τῆς add. διά MFHP, spat.
2 litt. G
19 τῆς om. F ὥριστο Α τὸν] τῶν MFH1P

2. 9—11 DK fol, 240r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ Maxim. Ecl. cap.
12 Flor. nr.
20 Φίλωνος: αἱ (ἐκ add. Max.) χρημάτων καὶ κτημάτων ἐπιμέλειαι (ἐπιθυμίαι Flor. Paris.) τοὺς χρόνους ἀναλίσκουσι· χρόνου δὲ φείδεσθαι καλόν. DR fol. 193r DV p. 563 Φίλωνος: χρόνου φείδεσθαι καλόν DM foL 215v Φίλωνος: χρόνον φοβεῖσθαι καλόν.

3. 10—12 Clem. Alex. Strom. V 4,
22 p. 658 P. . . . οἷον ἀμέλει τὸ „χρόνου ἤτοι ἐπεὶ
6 βίος βραχὺς καὶ οὐ δεῖ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον εἰς μάτην καταναλῶσαι.
11 Hippocr. Aphor. I 1.
15 Hom. II. N 5. 6.

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