Philo Judaeus De Vita Contemplativa 45

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[45] ἕτεροι δὲ τῶν μετριωτέρων δοκούντων εἶναι συμποτῶν ὥσπερ μανδραγόραν τὸν ἄκρατον πιόντες ὑπερβεβλύκασι καὶ τὸν εὐώνυμον ἀγκῶνα προβαλόντες καὶ τὸν αὐχένα
ἐγκάρσιον ἐπιστρέψαντες, ἐνερευγόμενοι ταῖς κύλιξιν, ὕπνῳ βαθεῖ πιέζονται. μηδὲν μήτε ἰδόντες μήτε ἀκούσαντες, ὡς μίαν μόνην ἔχοντες αἴσθησιν, τὴν ἀνδραποδωδεστάτην γεῦσιν.

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.) — 45 focus

[45] Others again who seem to be a more moderate kind of feasters when they have drunk unmixed wine as if it were mandragora, boil over as it were, and lean on their left elbow, and turn their heads on ¹ one side with their breath redolent of their wine, till at last they sink into profound slumber, neither seeing nor hearing anything, as if they had but one single sense, and that the most slavish of all, namely, taste.

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