Philo Judaeus De Vita Contemplativa 48

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[48] 6 Ἴσως δ’ ἄν τις ἀποδέξαιτο τὴν ἐπιπολάζουσαν νυνὶ τῶν
συμποσίων πανταχοῦ διάθεσιν κατὰ πόθον τῆς Ἰταλικῆς πολυτελείας καὶ τρυφῆς, ἣν ἐζήλωσαν Ἕλληνές τε καὶ βάρβαροι πρὸς ἐπίδειξιν μᾶλλον ἢ πρὸς εὐωχίαν ποιούμενοι τὰς παρασκευάς.

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.) — 48 focus

And perhaps some people may be inclined to approve of the arrangement of such entertainments which at present prevails everywhere, from an admiration of, and a desire of imitating, the luxury and extravagance of the Italians which both Greeks and barbarians emulate, making all their preparations with a view to show rather than to real enjoyment,

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