Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 64

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[64] 8 Ἀλλ’ ἐπειδὴ τὰ διωνομασμένα συμπόσια τοιαύτης μεστὰ
φλυαρίας ἐστίν, ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἔχοντα τὸν ἔλεγχον, εἴ τις μὴ πρὸς δόξας καὶ τὴν διαδοθεῖσαν περὶ αὐτῶν ὡς δὴ πάνυ κατωρθωμένων φήμην ἐθελήσειεν ἀφορᾶν, ἀντιτάξω τὰ τῶν ἀνατεθεικότων τὸν ἴδιον βίον καὶ ἑαυτοὺς ἐπιστήμῃ καὶ θεωρίᾳ τῶν τῆς φύσεως πραγμάτων κατὰ τὰς τοῦ προφήτου Μωυσέως ἱερωτάτας ὑφηγήσεις.

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

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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.) — 64 focus

But since the entertainments of the greatest celebrity are full of such trifling and folly, bearing conviction in themselves, if any one should think fit not to regard vague opinion and the character which has been commonly handed down concerning them as feasts which have gone off with the most eminent success, I will oppose to them the entertainments of those persons who have devoted their whole life and themselves to the knowledge and contemplation of the affairs of nature in accordance with the most sacred admonitions and precepts of the prophet Moses.

Philo Judaeus De Vita Contemplativa 64

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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