Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 37

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[37] σιτοῦνται δὲ πολυτελὲς οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ ἄρτον εὐτελῆ, καὶ ὄψον
ἅλες, οὓς οἱ ἁβροδίαιτοι παραρτύουσιν ὑσσώπῳ, ποτὸν δὲ ὕδωρ ναματιαῖον αὐτοῖς ἐστιν· ἃς γὰρ ἡ φύσις ἐπέστησε τῷ θνητῷ γένει δεσποίνας, πεῖνάν ¹² τε καὶ δίψαν, ἀπομειλίσσονται, τῶν εἰς κολακείαν ἐπιφέροντες οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ αὐτὰ τὰ χρήσιμα, ὧν ἄνευ ζῆν οὐκ ἔστι. διὰ τοῦτο ἐσθίουσι μέν, ὥστε μὴ πεινῆν, πίνουσι δέ, ὥστε μὴ διψῆν, πλησμονὴν ὡς ἐχθρόν τε καὶ ἐπίβουλον ψυχῆς τε καὶ σώματος ἐκτρεπόμενοι.

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.) — 37 focus

[37] and they eat nothing of a costly character, but plain bread and a seasoning of salt, which the more luxurious of them to further season with hyssop; and their drink is water from the spring; for they oppose those feelings which nature has made mistresses of the human race, namely, hunger and thirst, giving them nothing to flatter or humour them, but only such useful things as it is not possible to exist without. On this account they eat only so far as not to be hungry, and they drink just enough to escape from thirst, avoiding all satiety, as an enemy of and a plotter against both soul and body.

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De vita contemplativa

1.
1 προκαταβαλλόμενοι codd. Eus: προκαταβαλόμενοι v τῆς ψυχῆς C (cordis Lat): τῆ ψυχὴ ceteri Eus Arm (v)
2 σιτίον Eusebii codd. plerique et Lat: σιτίον δὲ codd. Arm (v) οὐδεὶς] οὐδενὸς Α προενέγκαιτο HP
3 ἐπεὶ Eus: ἐπειδὴ codd. (v) φωτὸς ἄξιον Eusebii codd. nonnulli
4 τοῦ σώματος Eus Arm Lat: σωματικάς codd. (v) τῶ F (τὸ ss. F2) ἡμέραν] ἡμέρας A (v) νυκτὸς om. Α 4.
5 νυκτὸς βραχύ τι μέρος] βραχύ τι μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς HP (v)
5 ἔνειμαν] ἀπένειμαν Eusebii cod. Α et Exc. Eus. codd. nonnulli
6 ὁ ante πόθος om. Α ἐνευφραίνονται codd.: ἀνευφραίνονται v
7 ἑστιώμενοι] εὐφραινόμενοι M
8 καὶ ante πρὸς om. F μόγις Eus
10 γένος] γένους Turn. Mang. Richt. γε om. C
11 πανέορτον] πανέρωτον Α εἶναι νομίζοντες C Arm: νομίζοντες εἶναι ceteri (v)
12 τῆς ante ψυχῆς om. CGHP (Turn. ἑ Conyb.)
14 ἀλλ’ FA
15 ἅλας MF, ἄλας Α ἁβροδίαιτοι] ἁβροδιαίτατοι Η (v) ποτὸν δὲ CM Arm, ποτὸν δ’ ceteri: δὲ om. v
16 ἐπέστησε] ὑπέστησε HP (v) θνητῷ] γενητῷ P

2. 54, 23—55,9 pergit Euseb. l. l. (14) πολλά μέν οὑν καὶ ἄλλα, περὶ ὧν λόγος, ἐν ταὐτῷ διέξεισιν, ἐκεῖνα δ’ ἀναγκαῖον ἐφάνη δεῖν ἀναλέξασθαι, δι’ ὧν τὰ χαρακτηριστικὰ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἀγωγῆς ὑποτίθεται. (15) εἰ δέ τῳ μὴ δοκεῖ τὰ εἰρημένα ἴδια εἶναι τῆς κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον πολιτείας, δύνασθαι δέ καὶ ἄλλοις παρὰ τοὺς δεδηλωμένους ἀρμόττειν, πειθέσθω κὰν ἀπὸ τῶν ἑξῆς αὐτοῦ φωνῶν, ἐν αἷς ἀναμφήριστον, εἰ εὐγνωμονοίη, κομίσεται τὴν περὶ τοῦδε μαρτυρίαν. γράφει γὰρ ὧδε· ἐγκράτειαν δ’ ὥσπερ τινὰ θεμέλιον — ἀπογεύεσθαι τροφῆς ἀναγκαίας ἐθισθέντες. Exc. Euseb. l. l. τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου: ἐγκράτειαν δὲ ὥσπερ τινά θεμέλιον — ἀπογεύεσθαι τροφῆς ἀναγκαίας ἐθισθέντες. 9.
10 cf. quod omnis prob. lib. sit § 8.
14 sqq. cf. Wendland, Philo u. die kynisch-stoische Diatribe p.
8 sqq.

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