Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 67

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[67] μετὰ δὲ τὰς εὐχὰς οἱ πρεσβύτεροι κατακλίνονται ταῖς εἰσκρίσεσιν ἀκολουθοῦντες· πρεσβυτέρους δὲ οὐ τοὺς πολυετεῖς ¹ καὶ πολιοὺς νομίζουσιν [ἀλλ’ ἔτι κομιδῇ νέους παῖδας], ἐὰν ὀψὲ τῆς προαιρέσεως ἐρασθῶσιν, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἐκ πρώτης p. 482 M. ἡλικίας ἐνηβήσαντας καὶ ἐνακμάσαντας τῷ θεωρητικῷ μέρει φιλοσοφίας, ὃ δὴ κάλλιστον καὶ θειότατόν ἐστι.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 67 focus

[67] and after having offered up these prayers the elders sit down to meat, still observing the order in which they were previously arranged, for they do not look on those as elders who are advanced in years and very ancient, but in some cases they esteem those as very young men, if they have attached themselves to this sect only lately, but those whom they call elders are those who from their earliest infancy have grown up and arrived at maturity in the speculative portion of philosophy, which is the most beautiful and most divine part of it.

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De vita contemplativa

1.
1 post δελεάζειν add. ἐνίων GA (ss. P), ἔνια F ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῦ περιόντος] ἐκ πολλῶν χ̣ρόνων Arm μώσεως codd.
3 ἀνεξαγάπητοι F διατελοῦντες om. in lac. M διατελοῦντες] διαθλοῦντες Turn.
4 ἀλλ’ om. M 4. 5. τοιαύτης ἐστὶ φλυαρίας μεστά A
5 ἐστίν om. M τις] τι Α, τις om. Arm πρὸς δόξας] πρός δόξαν HP (v)
6 αὐτῶν] ἑαυτῶν C κατωρθωμένην A
7 ἀντιταξάτω A, ἀντιτάξας Arm τὰ add. Mang. 7.
8 καὶ ἑαυτοὺς om. Arm
8 τῆς φύσεως om. G
9 τοῦ om. Α μωυσέος Α, μώσεως ceteri
10 ἑβδομάδα CGHP Arm: ἑβδομάδος F, ζωὴν M, καὶ μίαν Α
12 προέορτος CMG: προεόρτιος ceteri (v) ; cf. de spec. leg. II § 176 ἣν et ἔλαχεν om. Arm
13 ἀριθμός Arm (fortasse recte) ὀρθογώνου Α τριγωνίου 1
14 συσταθείς MFG Arm: καὶ σύστασις CA (καὶ συστάσεως Mang.), om. HP (Turn.) οὖν] γοῦν Α, δέ Arm
15 ἀνωτάτης Α
16 τινος τῶν ἐφημερευτῶν] αὐτοῖς τοῦ ἐφημερευτοῦ Arm ἐφημερευτῶν] ἑρμηνευτῶν F γὰρ] γὰρ αὐτοῖς Arm
18 τὰς ante χεῖρας om. HP (v)
19 ante ὅτι add, καθ’ ἣν F
22 τὴν εὐωχίαν αὐτῶν Arm
23 εἰσκρίσεσιν ἀκολουθοῦντες] θείαις κρίσεσιν ἀκολούθως A δὲ Arm: γάρ codd. (v)

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