Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 139

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[139] ἢ τὴν
περὶ τὸν ἱερώτατον Σικελικὸν πορθμὸν ᾀδομένην ἱστορίαν ἀγνοεῖτε; ἦν μὲν γὰρ τὸ παλαιὸν ἠπείρῳ Ἰταλίᾳ Σικελία συνάπτουσα, μεγάλων δὲ τῶν παρ’ ἑκάτερα πελαγῶν βιαίοις πνεύμασιν ἐξ ἐναντίας ἐπιδραμόντων, ἡ μεθόριος ἐπεκλύσθη καὶ ἀνερράγη, παρ’ ἣν καὶ πόλις ἐπώνυμος ¹² τοῦ πάθους Ῥήγιον κτισθεῖσα ὠνομάσθη. καὶ τοὐναντίον οὗ προσεδόκησεν ἄν τις ἀπέβη· συνεζεύχθη μὲν γὰρ τὰ τέως διεστῶτα πελάγη κατὰ τὴν σύρρυσιν ἑνωθέντα, ἡ δὲ ἡνωμένη γῆ τῷ μεθορίῳ πορθμῷ διεζεύχθη, παρ’ ὃν ἤπειρος οὖσα Σικελία νῆσος ἐβιάσθη γενέσθαι.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 139 focus

[139] Are you ignorant of the celebrated account which is given of that most sacred Sicilian strait, which in old times joined Sicily to the continent of Italy? ¹ and where vast seas on each side being excited by violent storms met together, coming from opposite directions, the land between them was overwhelmed and broken away; from which circumstance the city built in the neighbourhood was called Rhegium, ² and the result was quite different from what any one would have expected; for the seas which had formerly been separated now flowed together and were united in one expanse; and the land which had previously united was now separated into two portions by the strait which intersected it, in consequence of which Sicily, which had previously formed a part of the mainland, was now compelled to be an island.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 πίστιν ME: πιστὴν UHP (E cod. b)
3 θαλάσσης Ε
4 δεόντως] δὲ ὄντως Η ἄν om. Η (Turn.) ἀνισχούσας Ε ἀεὶ Bernays : εἰ MUHP (om. v), ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰ E
5 τὸ πάλαι] τοῖς πάλαι E (Diels)
6 σκοπεῖτε M : σκοπεῖται UH(P?), σκοπεῖν χρή E φιλονεικίας M; φιλονικία Cumont
7 ἀλήθεια Η ἰχνηλατήσειν UE πολυπραγμονεῖτε Mang.: πολυπραγμονεῖται UHPE, πολυπραγμονεῖν ἔστι M (Bernays)
8 ἐν ante ἠπείροις om. Ε λα μοίρας M
9 ὅση] ὅτι E θανατωθεῖσα U ἡ add. Diels ἢ scripsi) 9.
10 τὴν—ἀγνοεῖτε] ἡ περὶ τὸν Σικελικὸν πορθμόν ᾀδομένη ἱστορία ἀγνοεῖται παρ’ οὐδενός τῶν ἐλλογίμων E
10 ἱερώτατον] εὐρύτατον coni. Diels ἀγνοεῖτε MP: ἀγνοεῖται UH(E)
11 ἢν μὲν γὰρ addidi τό μὲν) παλαιὸν Diels (Cumont) ἠπείρῳ] ἦν ἤπειρος Buecheler (Cumont) ἰταλίας U (v), ἰταλίαν Σικελία Buecheler (Cumont): σικελίαν codd. συνάπτουσα MH (P?): προσάπτουσα UE; συνάπτουσαν v
13 ἐπεκλύθη E ἐπεκλύσθη cod. b) ἀνερράγη MUPE: ἐνερράγη H (v) παρ’ ἣν] παρῆν M καὶ πόλις] καὶ om. Turn., ἢ πόλις Man g. in textu

2.
10 sqq. Diodor. Sic. IV 85,
3 φασὶ γάρ οἱ παλαιοὶ μυθογράφοι τὴν Σικελίαν τὸ πρὸ τοῦ χερρόνησον οὖσαν ὕστερον γενέσθαι νῆσον διά τοιαύτης αἰτίας. τὸν ἰσθμὸν κατὰ τὸ στενώτατον ὑπό δυοῖν πλευρῶν θαλάττῃ προσκλυζόμενον ἀναρραγῆανι καὶ τὸν τόπον ἀπὸ τούτου Ῥήγιον ὀνομασθῆναι καὶ τὴν ὕστερον πολλοῖς ἔτεσι κτισθεῖσαν πόλιν τυχεῖν τῆς ὁμωνύμου προσηγορίας. ἔνιοι δέ λέγουσι σεισμῶν μεγάλων γενομένων διαρραγῆναι τὸν αὐχένα τῆς ἠπείρου καὶ γενέσθαι τὸν πορθμὸν διειργούσης τῆς θαλάττης τὴν ἤπειρον ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου. Strab. VI
6 p. 258 ὠνομάσθη δέ Ῥήγιον εἴθ’, ὥς φησιν Αἰσχύλος, διὰ τὸ συμβὰν πάθος τῇ χώρᾳ ταύτῃ· ἀπορραγῆναι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς ἠπείρου τὴν Σικελίαν ὑπό σεισμῶν ἄλλοι τε κἀκεῖνος εἴρηκεν „ἀγ᾿ οὐ δὴ Ῥήγιον κικλῄσκεται“ (Aesch. frg. 402 N.). Sen. Nat. Quaest. VI 30,
3 . . . .sic per hanc inundationem, quam poetarum maximi celebrant, ab Italia Sicilia resecta est. Plin. N. H. III
86 Siciiia . . . quondam Bruttio agro cohaerens, mox interfuso mari avulsa ...; ab hoc dehiscendi argumento Rhegium Graeci nomen dedere oppido in margine Italiae sito.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 139

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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