Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 27

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[27] τοῦτο μὲν δὴ παρὰ Πλάτωνος πρὸς τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν τοῦ
κόσμου μαρτύριον εἰλήφθω, τὸ δ’ ἀγένητον παρὰ τῆς φυσικῆς ἀκολουθίας· ἕπεται μὲν γὰρ τῷ γενομένῳ διάλυσις, ἀφθαρσία δὲ τῷ ἀγενήτῳ· ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ τὸ τρίμετρον ἐκεῖνο ποιήσας

„τό τοι γενόμενον κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται"

δοκεῖ μὴ ἀπὸ σκοποῦ, συνεὶς ἀκολουθίαν τῶν αἰτιῶν τῆς γενέσεως καὶ
τῆς φθορᾶς, * * * ὧδ’ ἔχει.

¹²

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.) — 27 focus

[27] Let this be taken as a testimony delivered by Plato to the imperishable nature of the world. Its uncreated character follows from the truth of natural philosophy; for dissolution must of necessity attend everything which is born, and incorruptibility must inevitably belong to everything which is unborn; since the poet who wrote the following iambic verse,

"All that is born must surely die,"

¹ appears to have spoken very correctly when he asserted this connection of destructibility with birth.

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1.
2 καὶ τὴν ἑτέραν] καὶ τῆ ἑτέρα M μαρτυρία Μ (Bernays)
3 τάδε] εῖναι H (Turn.)
4 δὴ om. U ἕκαστον om. M ἕκαστον εἴληφεν ὅλον transp. UE
6 ἀπολιπών Ε
8 ὑπολελειμένων M, ὑπολελειμμένον UE
9 τοιοῦτον CE (Plato): τοιοῦτο MHP ἀγήρων ΗΡ: ἀγήρω MUE 9.
10 ὡς συστατῷ Plato (συστατῷ Bernays): ὡς τά τῶ codd.
10 ἔχει ἰσχυρὰς transp. UE
11 ante περιιστάμενα add. καὶ E λυπεῖ codd.: λύει v (Plato) 11.
12 καὶ γῆρας] γῆράς τε Plato
12 διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν Ε (διὰ δὴ τὴν αἰτίαν Plato)
13 ὅλον] ἓν ὅλον Plato ἐξ ὅλων ἀπάντων] ὅλων ἐξ ἁπάντων Plato ἀπάντων om. HP (Turn.) ἀγήρων P, ἀγείρων H: ἀγήρω MUE
14 παρὰ] περὶ U ἀφθαρσίαν] ἁμαρτίαν U
15 εἰλῆφθαι M ἀγέννητον UHP ἀκολουθίας Mang.: ἀληθείας codd.
16 ἀγενήτω E: ἀγεννήτω MUHP
17 τρίμερον M
18 τό τοι γενόμενον] τῷ τοι γενομένῳ coui. Mang. κατθανεῖν MPE: καταθανεῖν Η, κατακτανεῖν U
19 μὴ] μὲν Ε συνεὶς Bernays: συνθεὶς codd. ἀλλ’ ἀκολουθίαν E τῶν αἰτιῶν MU: om. HPE 19.20 γενέσεως καὶ τῆς add. Bernays
20 ὧδ’ ἔχει ΗΕ, ὧδε ἔχει MP: ὧδε ἔχη U (ὦδ’ ἔχειν v): ὧδ’ ἔχει conicio; ὦδ’ ἔχει coni. Bernays, ὁμολογεῖν ὅτι ὧδ’ ἔχει Buecheler, ὧδ’ εἰπεῖν Cumont

2.
4 sqq. Piat. Tim. 32c.
18 versus ignoti poetae: cf. Eur. Alc. 419 ὡς πᾶσιν ἡμῖν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται et 782 βροτοῖς ἅπασιν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται.

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