Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 125

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[125] ὃ δ’ ὑπερεθέμεθα, νῦν ἐπισκεπτέον. ποῖον μέρος τῆς γῆς, ἵνα ἀπὸ ταύτης ἀρξώμεθα, μεῖζον ἢ ἔλαττον, οὐ χρόνῳ διαλύεται; λίθων οἱ κραταιότατοι ἆρ’ οὐ μυδῶσι καὶ σήπονται καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἕξεως ἀσθένειαν — ἡ δ’ ἐστὶ πνευματικὸς τόνος, δεσμὸς οὐκ ἄρρηκτος ἀλλὰ μόνον δυσδιάλυτος — θρυπτόμενοι καὶ ῥέοντες εἰς λεπτὴν τὸ πρῶτον ἀναλύονται κόνιν, εἶθ’ ὕστερον δαπανηθέντες ἐξαναλοῦνται; τί δ’, εἰ μὴ πρὸς ἀνέμων ῥιπίζοιτο ¹² τὸ ὕδωρ, ἀκίνητον ἐαθὲν οὐχ ὑφ’ ἡσυχίας νεκροῦται; μεταβάλλει γοῦν καὶ δυσωδέστατον γίνεται, οἷα ψυχὴν ἀφῃρημένον ζῷον.

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.) — 125 focus

[125] But we must now proceed to consider the question which we postponed till the present time. What sort of a part of the earth is that, that we may begin from this, whether it is greater or less, that is not dissolved by time? Do not the very hardest and strongest stones become hard and decayed through the weakness of their conformation (and this conformation is a sort of course of a highly strained spirit, a bond not indissoluble, but only very difficult to unloose), in consequence of which they are broken up and made fluid, so that they are dissolved first of all into a thin dust, and afterwards are wholly wasted away and destroyed? Again, if the water were never agitated by the winds, but were left immoveable for ever, would it not from inaction and tranquillity become dead? at all events it is changed by such stagnation, and becomes very foetid and foul-smelling, like an animal deprived of life.

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De aeternitate mundi

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1 τὴν Δῆλον] τὴν δ’ Η
2 μεγάλων] μεγάλην M: μεταλλαγῇ coui. Diels
4 σημεῖ’ ἄττα Bernays: σημεῖα τά codd. G εἴωθεν MUE: εἰώθασιν HP (Turn.) εἰ δὴ M: εἰ δὲ UHPE (v) 6.
7 μειωθήσεται μὲν καὶ scripsi: μειωθήσεται μὲν MUE, μειωθήσεται καὶ HP (Turn.)
7 περιοδικοῖς ut vid. P καὶ aute εἰς ἅπαν seclusit Cumont
8 ἀναλυθήσεται UE δαπανηθήσεται etiam P δὲ καὶ HP:
61 om. MUE
9 τὰ ante πάντα om. M
10 τὴν πυρός] τοῦ πυρός Beruays, errore ut vid.
11 δὲ om. H (Turn.) κεφαλαίου κατασκευὴν M: κατασκευὴν κεφαλαίου Ε, κατασκευὴν τοῦ κεφαλαίου UHP (Turn.) χρῶνται UE: χρᾶται M χρῆται Bernays), χρήσεται HP (Turn.; χρήσονται Mang.)
12 πάντα τὰ μἐρη Ε: τὰ om. MUHP (v)
13 ἄρα καὶ E ἐστίν om. E
14 δὲ Ε ταύτης] ταὐτοῦ Ε
15 μεῖζον ἢ ἔλαττον MUE: μεῖον δὲ ἢ ἔλαττον HP μειοῦται, εἰ ἔλαττον Turn.) οὐ] ὃν Turn. διαλύεται Mang.: διαλύσεται MUHP (Turn.), διαλυθήσεται Ε (Bernays) οἱ κράτιστοι M
16 μυδῶδι καὶ σήπονται MUE: μυδῶσιν ὡς σήπονται P, δῶσιν ὡς σήπονται HL μυδῶσιν; οὐ σήπονται Turn.) καὶ add. Weudl. 16.
17 ἡ δ’ ἐστὶ] ἥδ’ ἔστι codd. ἡδ’ ἐστὶ Turn., ἥδ’ ἐστι Mang., ἢ δ’ ἐστὶ Beruays, ἡ δ’ ἔστι Cumont)
17 ἄρηκτος H
18 θρυπτόμενος HP 18.
19 εἶθ᾿ ὕστερον δαπανηθέντες ἐξαναλοῦνται om. M
19 ἐξαναλοῦνται Beruays: ἐξαναλύονται UHPE; ἐξανήλωνται coni. Mang. τί δ’ codd.: ἔτι δ’ V (Turn.) ἀνέμων MHP: ἀνέμω U. ἀνέμου Ε ῥιπίζοντα H

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12 sq. Diog. La. VII 141 ... ἀρέσκει δ’ αὐτοῖς καὶ φθαρτὸν εἶναι τὸν κόσμον, ἅτε γενητὸν τῷ λόγῳ τῶν δι’ αἰσθήσεως νοουμένων, οὖ τά τε μέρη φθαρτά ἐστι καὶ τὸ ὅλον. τὰ δέ μέρη τοῦ κόσμου φθαρτά, εἰς ἄλληλα γὰρ μεταβάλλει· φθαρτὸς ἄρα
6 κόσμος.

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