Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 140

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[140] πολλὰς δὲ καὶ ἄλλας λόγος τῆς θαλάττης ὑπερσχούσης ἠφανίσθαι πόλεις καταποθείσας,
ἐπεὶ καὶ κατὰ Πελοπόννησόν φασι τρεῖς

"Αἴγειραν Βοῦράν τε καὶ ὑψηλὴν Ἑλίκειαν,

τείχεσιν ἣ τάχ’ ἔμελλε περὶ βρύα μυρία φύσειν“,

εὐδαίμονας τὸ πάλαι γενομένας πολλῇ τοῦ πελάγους ἐπικλυσθῆναι φορᾷ.

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.) — 140 focus

[140] And it is said that many other cities also have disappeared, having been swallowed up by the sea which overwhelmed them; since they speak of three in Peloponnesus— "Aegira and fair Bura’s walls, And Helica’s lofty halls, And many a once renowned town, With wreck and seaweed overgrown," ¹² as having been formerly prosperous, but now overwhelmed by the violent influx of the sea.

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