Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 147

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[147] ὅταν μὲν οὖν ἔμπρησις ¹²³ καταλαμβάνῃ, ῥεῦμα αἰθερίου πυρὸς ἄνωθεν ἐκχεόμενον πολλαχῇ σκεδάννυσθαι, μεγάλα κλίματα τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐπιτρέχον· ὅταν δὲ κατακλυσμός, ἅπασαν τὴν ὕδατος [κατομβρίαν] κατασύρειν φύσιν, αὐθιγενῶν καὶ χειμάρρων ποταμῶν οὐ πλημμυρούντων μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ καθεστὸς προσυπερβαλλόντων τῆς ἐπιβάσεως καὶ τὰς ὄχθας ἢ τῇ βίᾳ παραρρηγνύντων
ἢ ὑπερπηδώντων ἀναβάσει τῇ πρὸς μήκιστον ὕψος· ὅθεν ὑπερβλύσαντας εἰς τὴν παρακειμένην ἀναχεῖσθαι πεδιάδα, τὴν δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον εἰς μεγάλας λίμνας διανέμεσθαι, πρὸς τὰ κοιλότερα ἀεὶ τοῦ ὕδατος συνίζοντος, αὖθις δ’ ἐπιρρέοντος καὶ τοὺς μεθορίους ἰσθμοὺς p. 516 M. κατακλύζοντος, οἷς διεκρίνοντο αἱ λίμναι, εἰς μέγεθος ἀχανοῦς πελάγους κατὰ
τὴν πολλῶν ἕνωσιν ἀποκρίνεσθαι.

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.) — 147 focus

[147] When, therefore, a conflagration seizes upon things, a stream of ethereal fire being poured down from above is frequently diffused over them, overrunning many districts of the habitable world; and when a deluge draws down the whole of the rainy nature of water, the regular rivers and torrents overflowing, and not only that, but even far exceeding the ordinary measure of a common flood, and breaking down their banks with their violence, or else overleaping them, and rising to an enormous height, from which they swell and are diffused over all the adjacent champaign country, and the land is in the first instance divided into huge lakes, as the water is continually settling down into the more hollow parts, and afterwards flows still higher, and inundates the isthmuses which separate the lakes, till at last everything presents the appearance of one vast sea from the union of so many waters.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 καὶ ἀθρόα scripsi (coni. Cumont) ; πάντ’ ἀθρόα coni. Reiter (Zeitschr. f. őst. Gymn. 1892 p. 19)
2 οὐκ ἐκώλυται M
4 ὑφ᾿ ἕνα καιρῶν Ε cod. a
5 ἐνδέχεσθαι] δέχεσθαι Usener, μὲν δέ·χεσθαι· Gomperz
6 γείτονος] γειτονοῦντος P μᾶλλον ἢ] μᾶλλον μᾶλλον M
7 verba κατά τὸ φιλοσοφηθὲν—10 ἀπέδειξεν om. E καταφιλοσοφηθὲν HP
8 γινομένων codd.
9 πρὸς ἄλλο codd. : πρὸς ἄλλου Nauck (Cumont), πρὸς ἄλλῳ Bernays
10 ἀπέδειξε HP
12 τίς UH ἀκολοθήσας M
14 εὑρεταὶ U τῶν ante ἐνιαυτῶν om. Ε
16 ἀλλ’ om. HP (Turn.)
17 τις H τί v) ἀθρόων UPE: ἀθρόον MH
19 ἀλήκτοις P (coni. Turn. in append.) 19.20 φασὶν ἐν μέρει transp. UE
20 μακραῖς UE: μικραῖς MH(P?) ὅταν] ὁτὲ E ἔμπρησις] ἐμπρησμοῖς E; ἐμπρησμὸς Diels

2. 8—10 Eur. frg. 839.
13 sqq. Plat. Legg. III 677 d ... χίλια ἀφ’ οὗ γέγονεν ἢ δὶς τοσαῦτα ἔτη, τὰ μὲν Δαιδάλῳ καταφανῆ γέγονε, τὰ δὲ Ὀρφεῖ, τὰ δέ Παλαμήδει . . .

3.
17 sqq. Plat. Tim.
22 c πολλαὶ καὶ κατὰ πολλὰ φθοραὶ γεγόνασιν ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἔσονται, πυρὶ μὲν καὶ ὕδατι μέγισται, μυρίοις δέ ἄλλοις ἕτεραι βραχύτεραι. . . . τὸ δ’ ἀληθές ἐστι τῶν περὶ γῆν καὶ κατ’ οὐρανὸν ἰόντων παράλλαξις καὶ διά μακρῶν χρόνων γιγνομένη τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς πυρὶ πολλῷ φθορά. τότε μὲν οὖν ὅσοι κατ’ ὄρη καὶ ἐν ὑφηλοῖς]τόποις καὶ ἐν ξηροῖς οἰκοῦσι μᾶλλον διόλλυνται τῶν ποταμοῖς καὶ θαλάττῃ προσοικούντων. . . . ὅταν δ’ αὖ οἱ θεοὶ τὴν γῆν ὕδασι καθαίροντες κατακλύζωσιν, οἱ μὲν ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι διασῴζονται βουκόλοι νομεῖς τε, οἱ δ’ ἐν ταῖς παρ’ ἡμῖν πόλεσιν εἰς τὴν Θάλατταν ὑπὸ τῶν ποταμῶν φέρονται.

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