Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 119

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[119] νυνὶ δὲ συνεχεῖς ἀνωμαλίαι καὶ παμπόλλων ὁρῶν αἱ πρὸς αἰθέριον ὕψος ὑπερβολαὶ μηνύματ’ ἐστὶ τοῦ τὴν γῆν μὴ ἀίδιον
εἶναι. πάλαι γάρ, ὡς ἔφην, ἐν ἀπείρῳ χρόνῳ ταῖς ἐπομβρίαις ἀπὸ περάτων ἐπὶ πέρατα πᾶς’ ἂν λεωφόρος ἐγεγένητο· πέφυκε γὰρ ἡ ὕδατος φύσις καὶ μάλιστα ἀπὸ ὑψηλοτάτων καταράττουσα τὰ μὲν ἐξωθεῖν ¹² τῇ βίᾳ, τὰ δὲ τῷ συνεχεῖ τῶν ψεκάδων κολάπτουσα κοιλαίνειν ὑπεργάζεσθαί τε τὴν σκληρόγεω καὶ λιθωδεστάτην ὀρυκτήρων οὐκ ἔλαττον.

De Aeternitate Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Aeternitate Mundi (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Incorruptibility of the World First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 119 focus

[119] but now, as things are, the constant inequalities which exist, and the vast heights of many mountains, reaching up even to the sky, are so many proofs that the earth is not eternal. For otherwise, as I have said before, all the earth would long since have been rendered level from one extremity to the other by the vast rains which would have fallen from the eternal commencement of time; for it is the character of the nature of water, and especially of such as descends in a heavy fall from lofty places, to push some things away by force, and to cut out and hollow other places by its continual dropping, and in this manner to operate on the hard, rugged, stony ground not less than men digging.

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 γῆ Mang : ἐν γῆ codd. ἐφέξει M: ὑφέξει UE, ἀφέξει HP
2 ἐπιπολλάζοντος M
3 τὸν ἄνω Ε: τὸ ἄνω MUHP
4 καὶ μὴν δ’ οὐδὲ U 4.
5 κατ᾿ ἀλοίωσιν Η, κατά ἀλλοίωσιν E
7 ἅτε υήτε Wendl.: ἅτε μὴ codd. πλεονεκτοῦν μήτε om. UE ὥστε E
8 ἀντέκτησις MH τῶν δυναμένων E ἀναλογίας v (Turn.): ἀναλογίαις codd. ὑγείας PE
9 ἀποδείκνυται Ε: ... δείκνυται ἄπο om. in lac.) M, ἐπιδείκνυται UHP
11 γῆς UE: τῆς MHP (Turn.)
12 ἑκάστων E cod. r
13 κατὰ 003E; γένη Cumont coll. 86,
18 κατασκευάζειν Usener (Cumont): κατασκευάζει codd.: κατασκευάζουσι coni. Mang.
14 ὑπανεστὸς UHP: ὑπανεστὼς E, ὑπανέστη M ὑπανεστηκὸς Bevnays) οὐδ’ ἓν U αὐτῆς UE: αὖ M, αὐτὴ H P?)
15 πάντα τὰ ὄρη transp. P
16 τοσοῦτον U ἐνιαυτῶν Μ
17 διῃρημένων M πρὸς ὕψος] εἰς ὕψος UE
19 παμπόλων UE
20 αἰθέριον om. E
22 πᾶσ᾿ ἂν Buecheler: πᾶσα codd. ἐγεγένητο] ἐγένετο Μ
23 καταρράττουσα MP

2.
10 sqq. Doxogr. p. 486,
3 sqq. Zeno frg. 106 (Arnim).

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 119

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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