Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 43

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[43] εἰ δὲ μηδεὶς
οἷα βραβευτὴς παρελθὼν μέσος διαλύσειε, μετὰ πλείονος ἐξουσίας καταπαλαίουσι, φονῶντες ἐν ταὐτῷ καὶ θανατῶντες· πάσχουσι γὰρ οὐκ ἐλάττονα ὧν διατιθέασιν, ὅπερ οὐκ ἴσασι, παραπαίοντες οἱ τὸν οἶνον οὐχ, ὡς ὁ κωμικός φησιν, ἐπὶ κακῷ τῶν πλησίον αὐτὸ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ἰδίῳ πίνειν ὑπομένοντες.

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.) — 43 focus

[43] And if no one were to come like an umpire into the middle of them, and part the combatants, and reconcile them, they would continue the contest with unlimited licence, striving to kill and murder one another, and being killed and murdered on the spot; for they do not suffer less than they inflict, though out of the delirious state into which they have worked themselves they do not feel what is done to them, since they have filled themselves with wine, not, as the comic poet says, to the injury of their neighbour, but to their own.

Philo Judaeus De Vita Contemplativa 43

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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