Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 2

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[2] ἡ δὲ προαίρεσις τῶν φιλοσόφων εὐθὺς
ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τῆς προσρήσεως· θεραπευταὶ γὰρ καὶ θεραπευτρίδες ¹²³⁴ ἐτύμως καλοῦνται, ἤτοι παρόσον ἰατρικὴν ἐπαγγέλλονται κρείσσονα τῆς κατὰ πόλεις — ἡ μὲν γὰρ σώματα θεραπεύει μόνον, ἐκείνη δὲ καὶ ψυχὰς νόσοις κεκρατημένας χαλεπαῖς τε καὶ δυσιάτοις, ἃς ἐγκατέσκηψαν ἡδοναὶ καὶ ἐπιθυμίαι καὶ λῦπαι καὶ φόβοι πλεονεξίαι τε καὶ ἀφροσύναι
καὶ ἀδικίαι καὶ τὸ τῶν ἄλλων παθῶν καὶ κακιῶν ἀνήνυτον πλῆθος — ἢ παρόσον ἐκ φύσεως καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν νόμων p. 472 M. ἐπαιδεύθησαν θεραπεύειν τὸ ὄν, ὃ καὶ ἀγαθοῦ κρεῖττόν ἐστι καὶ ἑνὸς εἰλικρινέστερον καὶ μονάδος ἀρχεγονώτερον. οἷς τίνας συγκρίνειν ἄξιον τῶν ἐπαγγελλομένων εὐσέβειαν;

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 2 focus

[2] but the deliberate intention of the philosopher is at once displayed from the appellation given to them; for with strict regard to etymology, they are called therapeutae and therapeutrides, ¹ either because they profess an art of medicine more excellent than that in general use in cities (for that only heals bodies, but the other heals souls which are under the mastery of terrible and almost incurable diseases, which pleasures and appetites, fears and griefs, and covetousness, and follies, and injustice, and all the rest of the innumerable multitude of other passions and vices, have inflicted upon them), or else because they have been instructed by nature and the sacred laws to serve the living God, who is ² superior to the good, and more simple than the one, and more ancient than the unit;

Notes on the current edition

De vita contemplativa

1. Tit. Φίλωνος ἱκέται ἣ περὶ ἀρετῶν δ’ C, φίλωνος περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ ἢ ἱκετῶν ἀρετῶν τὸ δ’ MG, τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ ἢ ἱκετῶν ἀρετῶν τὸ δ΄ F, Φίλωνος ἰουδαίου περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ ἢ ἱκετῶν ἀρετῆς τὸ τέταρτον Α, περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ ἢ ἱκετῶν ἀρετῶν HP (v), περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ Arm

2.
1 διαλεχθείς] disputaturus Lat
2 τὸ γοῦν φορητότερον εἰπεῖν] ne mediocrius adseram Lat φορητότερον] ἀφορητότερον CHP Αrm (Conyb.), εὐφορητότερον mg C (Turn.)
3 διενεγκόντων Α
4 τῆς] τῆ F
5 ἐν om. Mang.

3.
6 τοῖς om. Arm
8 δὲ ὅμως] δ’ ὁμοίως Α, οὖν F in ras.
11 διὰ] ἀπὸ A θεραπευτρίδαις P, θεραπευτίδες Α

4.
11 sqq. Euseb. Hist. eccl. II 17,
3 πρῶτόν γέ τοι τὸ μηθὲν πέρα τῆς ἀληθείας οἴκοθεν καὶ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ προσθήσειν (l. 5), οἷς ἱστορήσειν ἔμελλεν, ἀπισχυρισάμενος (scil. Φίλων) ἐν ᾧ ἐπέγραψεν λόγῳ Περὶ βίου θεωρητικοῦ ἡ ἱκετῶν, θεραπευτὰς αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰς σὺν αὐτοῖς γυναῖκας θεραπευτρίδας ἀποκαλεῖσθαί φησιν, τἀς αἰτίας ἐπειπὼν τῆς τοιάσδε προσρήσεως, ἤτοι παρὰ τὸ τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν προσιόντων αὐτοῖς τῶν ἀπό κακίας παθῶν ἰατρῶν δίκην ἀπαλλάττοντας ἀκεῖσθαι καὶ θεραπεύειν ἡ τῆς περὶ τὸ θεῖον καθαρᾶς καὶ εἰλικρινοῦς θεραπείας τε καὶ θρησκείας ἕνεκα.

Philo Judaeus De Vita Contemplativa 2

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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