Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 149

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[149] κατὰ δὴ τοὺς λεχθέντας τρόπους δίχα μυρίων ἄλλων βραχυτέρων φθειρομένου τοῦ πλείστου μέρους ἀνθρώπων, ἐπιλείπειν ἐξ ἀνάγκης καὶ τὰς τέχνας· δίχα γὰρ τοῦ μεθοδεύοντος οὐκ εἶναι καθ’ αὑτὴν ἰδεῖν ἐπιστήμην. ἐπειδὰν δὲ αἱ μὲν κοιναὶ νόσοι χαλάσωσιν, ἄρξηται δὲ ἀνηβᾶν καὶ βλαστάνειν τὸ γένος ἐκ τῶν μὴ προκαταληφθέντων
τοῖς ἐπιβρίσασι δεινοῖς, ἄρχεσθαι καὶ τὰς τέχνας πάλιν ¹² συνίστασθαι, οὐ τότε πρῶτον γενομένας, ἀλλὰ τῇ μειώσει τῶν ἐχόντων ὑποσπανισθείσας.

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.) — 149 focus

[149] Accordingly, when the greater part of mankind is destroyed in the manners above mentioned, besides an infinity of other ways of less power and importance, it follows of necessity that the arts also must fail, for it cannot be possible to discuss science by itself without some one to reduce it to method and practise. But when those common pestilences relax their fury, and when the human race begins again to recover vigour and to flourish, descending from those who have not been previously destroyed by the evils which pressed upon them, then the arts also begin again to exist, not indeed as they were at first, but in thinner numbers from the diminution of the numbers of those who practise them.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 καταλαμβάνῃ η ex ει corr.) M, καταλαμβάνει E αἰθερίου MUE: αἰθρίου HP 1.
2 σκεδάννυται Ε
2 ὅταν] ὁτὲ E
3 κατομβρίαν om. E, seclusit Diels: ὕδατος ὀμβρίου κατασύρειν conicio κατασύρειν Buecheler: κατασύρει E, κατασύρη MUHP 3.
4 αὐθιγενῶν ποταμῶν καὶ χειμάρρων Ε
4 μόνων Η καθεστὸς Mang.: καθεστὼς codd.; cf. 108,
14 5 προσεπιβαλλόντων M τῆς om. HP (v) καὶ τὰς ὄχθας—16 ἡ καὶ μόνων om. E 5.
6 παραρηγνύντων U
6 ὑπερποδώντων M 6.
7 ὑπερβλύσαντες U, ὑπερβλήσαντες M
10 πελάγη M; εἰς μεγέθους ἀχανοῦς πελάγη coni. Buecheler
11 πολλῶν MU: τῶν πολλῶν HP (v)
12 ἐν τοῖς om. M ἐν ἐναντίοις Bernays) οἰκοῦντα M οἰκοῦντα M πυρὶ] περὶ Η
13 οὐκ ἔχοντας] οὐ κατέχοντας U φύσει v (Turn): φησί codd. (Bernays) ; φυσικὸν coni. Buecheler
14 ἔμπαλι M ὕδατι] ὕδωρ Η παρά etiam M (non περὶ)
15 φιλεῖ MU: φιλεῖν HP (v) πρώτων M: πρὸ τῶν UHP
16 ἡ καὶ μόνων Diels: ἡγεμόνων UHP, ἡγουμένων M; ἤ γε μόνων V (Turn.)
17 ἐπειπεῖν Buecheler: ἐπιλιπεῖν codd.
19 ἐπιστήμην MUE: τὴν ἐπιστήμην HP et E cod. r (v) κοινοὶ H 20.
21 προκαταληφθέντων HP: προκαταλειγθέντων M, προσκαταλειφθέντων UE
21 τἀς ante τέχνας om. Η (Turn.)

2.
11 sqq. cf. Plat. Legg. III 677 a.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 149

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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