Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 58

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[58] ἀλλ’ ὅμως καὶ ταῦτα συγκρινόμενα τοῖς τῶν ἡμετέρων,
οἳ τὸν θεωρητικὸν ἠσπάσαντο βίον, γέλως ἀναφανεῖται. ἡδονὰς μὲν οὖν ἔχει ἑκάτερον, ἀνθρωπικώτερον δέ ἐστι τὸ Ξενοφῶντος· αὐλητρίδες τε καὶ ὀρχησταὶ καὶ θαυματοποιοὶ καὶ ποιηταὶ γελοίων ἐπὶ τῷ σκῶψαι καὶ χαριεντίσασθαι μέγα φρονοῦντές εἰσί τινες καὶ ἄλλα τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἱλαρωτέραις ἀνέσεσι.

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.) — 58 focus

[58] but nevertheless even these, if compared with the banquets of the men of our time who have embraced the contemplative system of life, will appear ridiculous. Each description, indeed, has its own pleasures, but that recorded by Xenophon is the one the delights of which are most in accordance with human nature, for female harp-players, and dancers, and conjurors, and jugglers, and men who do ridiculous things, who pride themselves much on their powers of jesting and of amusing others, and many other species of more cheerful relaxation, are brought forward at it.

Philo Judaeus De Vita Contemplativa 58

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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