Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 77

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[77] οἱ δὲ ἀνωρθιακότες τὰ ὦτα καὶ τοὺς
ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀνατετακότες εἰς αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μιᾶς καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς σχέσεως ἐπιμένοντες ἀκροῶνται, τὸ μὲν συνιέναι καὶ κατειληφέναι νεύματι καὶ βλέμματι διασημαίνοντες, τὸν δὲ ἔπαινον τοῦ λέγοντος ἱλαρότητι καὶ τῇ σχέδην περιαγωγῇ τοῦ προσώπου, τὴν δὲ διαπόρησιν ἠρεμαιοτέρᾳ κινήσει τῆς κεφαλῆς καὶ ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ τῆς δεξιᾶς χειρός· οὐχ ἧττον δὲ τῶν
¹ κατακεκλιμένων οἱ παρεστῶτες νέοι προσέχουσιν.

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.) — 77 focus

[77] but the hearers, fixing their eyes and attention upon the speaker, remain in one and the same position listening attentively, indicating their attention and comprehension by their nods and looks, and the praise which they are inclined to bestow on the speaker by the cheerfulness and gentle manner in which they follow him with their eyes and with the fore-finger of the right hand. And the young men who are standing around attend to this explanation no less than the guests themselves who are sitting at meat.

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De vita contemplativa

1.
1 τὸ θρέμμα τῶν ἀπληστοτάτων ΜΑΗ1Ρ1
2 alterum μέν om. Μ
3 διακόνους ut vid. Arm: διακονουμένους codd. (v) ; nescio an Philo scripserit τοὺς διακονοῦντας
4 ὁ πρόεδρος αὐτῶν, πολλῆς ἀπάντων ἡσυχίας γενομένης: sic secundum Arm codicum lacuuam explevi: ὁ πρόεδρος αὐτῶν, ὅτε κοινὴ ἡσυχία γέγονεν Conyb. (sed cf. eius commentar. p. 247)
5 πότε GAP2 Arm (Conyb.): πότος ceteri (v) δ’ GAH2 (v)
6 ζητεῖ scripsi (sic etiam Conyb. p. 248 et Wendl.): ζητεῖται codd., ζητεῖ τις v; ζήτημά τι τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς γράμμασι προταθέντων ἐπιλύεται videtur legisse Arm τοῖς om. F
7 προταθὲν codd.: προταθέν τι Turn. Conyb. ἐπιλύεται] ἐπιλύεταί τις A. ἐπιλύεται ἕτερος G μὲν] μὲν οὑν F
8 ἐπιδείξεως] ἐπιλύσεως HP (Turu.) οὐ] οὐδέ Α δεινότητος F1, δεινοτάτων Α
9 θεασάμενος om. Α
10 τοῖς] τοῖς ἄλλοις G (Mang.) μὴ om. Α ὀξυδερκοῦσι GHP (v) 10.
11 παραπλησίως Α
11 ἔχουσιν C διαμέλλων codd. (Conyb.): διαμένων v (Turn.)
12 ταῖς ἐπιλήψεσιν P
13 εὐτρόχως] εὐστόχως HP (Turn.), εὐστρόφως Α, τρόχως (εὐ om. in lac.) G 15.
16 τὰ ὧτα καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀνατετακότες addidi secundum Arm (῾qui rero erigunt aures et oculos infigunθ): om. codd.; τὰ ὦτα deesse videri raonuit iam Mang. 17.
18 νεύμασι καὶ βλέμμασι F (fortasse recte, cf. §
31 de couf. ling. § 11)
18 σημαίνοντες Α δ’ FA ἱλαρώ (i. e. ἱλαρώτατον?) Α 18.19 τὴν σχέδην Α, τῆ σχεδὸν F, σχέδην om. in lac. G
19 ἀπόρησιν Ρ

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