Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 40

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[40] 5 Βούλομαι δὲ καὶ τὰς κοινὰς συνόδους αὐτῶν καὶ ἱλαρωτέρας ἐν συμποσίοις διαγωγὰς εἰπεῖν, ἀντιτάξας τὰ τῶν ἄλλων συμπόσια. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ὅταν ἄκρατον ἐμφορήσωνται, καθάπερ οὐκ οἶνον πιόντες ἀλλὰ
παρακινηματικόν τι καὶ μανιῶδες καὶ εἴ τι χαλεπώτερον ἐπ’ ἐκστάσει ¹² λογισμοῦ φυσικόν, ἀράσσουσι καὶ λυττῶσι τρόπον κυνῶν ἀτιθάσων καὶ ἐπανιστάμενοι δάκνουσιν ἀλλήλους καὶ ἀποτρώγουσι ῥῖνας, ὦτα, δακτύλους, ἕτερα ἄττα μέρη τοῦ σώματος, ὡς τὸν ἐπὶ Κύκλωπος καὶ τῶν Ὀδυσσέως ἑταίρων μῦθον ἀποδεδειχέναι τούτους ἀληθῆ, „ψωμούς“, ᾗ φησιν ὁ
ποιητής, ἐπεσθίοντας ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ὠμότερον ἢ ἐκεῖνος.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 40 focus

I wish also to speak of their common assemblies, and their very cheerful meetings at convivial parties, setting them in opposition and contrast to the banquets of others, for others, when they drink strong wine, as if they had been drinking not wine but some agitating and maddening kind of liquor, or even the most formidable thing which can be imagined for driving a man out of his natural reason, rage about and tear things to pieces like so many ferocious dogs, and rise up and attack one another, biting and gnawing each other’s noses, and ears, and fingers, and other parts of their body, so as to give an accurate representation of the story related about the Cyclops and the companions of Ulysses, who ate, as the poet says, fragments of human flesh, ¹ and that more savagely than even he himself;

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De vita contemplativa

1.
1 φέροντες Α ἀλλὰ C
3 διψᾶν Α
4 ψυχῆς τε καὶ σώματος ἐκτρεπόμενοι] ἐκτρεπόμενοι ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος HP (v) ἐπεὶ δὲ ΑΗ2: ἐπειδὴ CMH1P Arm (Conyb.), ἐπειδὴ δὲ FG καὶ om. G
5 διττὸν τὸ εἶδος G εἶδος] γένος Α περὶ μὲν οὖν C Arm (Conyb.) οἰκίας] τῆς οἰκίας F
8 ἀπὸ ΑΡ2 (de pelle Lat): ἀντὶ ceteri (Turn. Conyb.) παχεῖα om. G Arm ἐξωμὶς] ἐξ ὠμῆς Α
9 ἢ ὀθόνη] ἡ ὀθόνη Arm (Conyb.) ἀσκοῦσιν] ἐξασκοῦσιν C (Conyb.), καὶ ἀσκοῦσιν F 9.
10 τῦφον μὲν τοῦ ψεύδους ἀρχήν, ἀτυφίαν δὲ ἀληθείας Lat: τύφου μὲν τὸ ψεῦδος ἀρχήν, ἐτυφίας δὲ ἀλήθειαν codd. (v)
10 ἀρχήν om. in lac. M δ’ Α
11 ψεύδους] τύφου M
12 τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων M Arm
14 ἐν συμποσίοις διαγωγὰς om. in lac. M
15 ὅταν ἄκρατον ἐμφορήσωνται om. in lac. M πιόντες Arm (quasi non vino epotato Lat): πίνοντες codd. (v)
16 παρακινηματικόν MFGAP2, περικινηματικόν C: παρακινητικόν H (v) prius τι HP: τε A, τι om. CMFG καί τι μανιῶδες F, καὶ εἴ τι μανιῶδες M ὲν ἐκστα εἴ τι] ἔτι M (εἰ ἔτι τι Couyb.) ἐπεκτάσει Α

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2 sqq. cf. Senec. Epist. 8,
5 durius tractandum est (corpus), ne animo male pareat; cibus famem sedet, potio sitim extinguat, vestis arceat frigus, domus munimentum sit adversus infesta corporis. Clem. Alex. Paed. II 2,
29 p. 184 P. ὡς γὰρ τροφαῖς ἐπὶ τῴ μὴ πεινῆν, οὕτως καὶ ποτῷ ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ διψῆν χρηστέον.
7 sqq. cf. Wendland I. l. p.
15 sqq. Clem. Alex. Paed. II 10, 106 p. 233 P. φημὶ τοίνυν οὐκ ἄλλου τινὸς ἕνεκα δεηθῆναι ὑφασμάτων τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἢ σκέπης σώματος πρὸς ἀλέξησιν κρυμῶν τε ὑπερβολῆς καὶ καυμάτων ἐπιτάσεως, μή τι ἡμᾶς παραλυποίη τοῦ περιέχοντος ἡ ἀμετρία
15 sqq. cf. Wendlaud l. l. p.
21 sqq.

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