Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 4

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[4] 2 λέγεται τοίνυν ὁ κόσμος καθ’ ἓν μὲν [πρῶτον] σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἄστρων κατὰ περιοχὴν καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτῆς ζῴων καὶ φυτῶν, καθ’ ἕτερον δὲ μόνος
οὐρανός, εἰς ὃν ἀπιδὼν Ἀναξαγόρας πρὸς τὸν πυθόμενον, ἧς ἕνεκα αἰτίας ταλαιπωρεῖται διανυκτερεύων ὕπαιθρος, ἀπεκρίνατο ’τοῦ τὸν κόσμον θεάσασθαι,’ τὰς χορείας καὶ περιφορὰς τῶν ἀστέρων αἰνιττόμενος, κατὰ δὲ τρίτον, ὡς δοκεῖ τοῖς Στωικοῖς, διῆκον ἄχρι τῆς ἐκπυρώσεως, οὐσία τις ἢ διακεκοσμημένη ἢ ἀδιακόσμητος, οὗ τῆς κινήσεώς φασιν εἶναι τὸν ¹² χρόνον διάστημα. νῦν δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ σκέψις περὶ κόσμου τοῦ κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον σημαινόμενον, ὃς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ζῴων συνέστηκε.

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.) — 4 focus

The world, therefore, is spoken of in its primary sense as a single system, consisting of the heaven and the stars in the circumference of the earth, and all the animals and plants which are upon it; and in another sense it is spoken of merely as the heaven. And Anaxagoras, having a regard to this fact, once made answer to a certain person who asked of him what the reason was why he generally endeavoured to pass the night in the open air, that he did so for the sake of beholding the world, by which expression he meant the motions and revolutions of the stars. And in its third meaning, as the Stoics affirm, it is a certain admirably-arranged essence, extending to the period of conflagration, either beautifully adorned or unadorned, the periods of the motion of which are called time. But at present the subject of our consideration is the world, taken in the first sense of the word, which being one only, consists of the heaven, and of the earth, and of all that is therein.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 κἀν MHP: ἄν U (κἀν Bernays Cumont) στοχασμοῖς addidi; κἂν εἰκόνισμα καὶ μίμημά τι coni. Mang. δι’ αὐτῶν Bernays: δι’ αὐτῶν codd.
2 μίμημά τι MHP: μιμήματα U ἀνευρίσκωμεν HP, εὑρίσκωμεν U: ἀνευρίσκειν ἡμᾶς M (Βernays Cumout) 3.
4 ἐπειδὴ—κόσμος om. HP (Turn.)
4 πολλαχῶς MU(P?): πολλαχοῦ Η (v)
5 περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων M: περὶ om. UHP (v) τῶν νοημάτων Turn. σημαινόμενον Bernays (cf. 74, 2): σημαίνεται codd. τέτακται scripsi: καὶ τέτακται codd. (v) ; κατατέτακται Bernays
6 ἀλλ’ οὐχ MU: καὶ οὐχ HP (v) δηλοῦται Wendl. et ego: δηλοῦνται codd. πάντα addidi
8 πρῶτον seclusi
9 καὶ ante γῆς add. Mang. (cf. 74, 2)
10 πυθόμενον M: πυνθανόμενον UHP (v)
11 ταλαιπωρεῖται διανυκτερεύων Bernays (coll. Thuc. I 134, 2): τὰ πολλά πειρᾶται διανυκτερεύειν codd. τοῦ] τοῦτον U
13 διῆκον Jessen: διήκων codd. (διήκουσα v)
14 οὗ codd.: ἧς v

2.
1 cf. Plat. Tim.
29 c ἀλλ’ ἐὰν ἄρα μηδενός ἧττον παρεχώμεθα εἰκότας (λόγους), ἀγαπᾶν χρή.
7 sqri. cf. Chrysipp. frg. 527 (Arnim) κόσμον δ’ εἶναί φησιν ὁ Χρύσιππος σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν τούτοις φύσεων. [Arist.] de mundo
2 κόσμος μὲν οὖν ἐστι σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν τούτοις περιεχομένων φύσεων. Ocell. Lucan.
17 τὸ δέ γε ὅλον καὶ τό πᾶν ὀνομάζω τόν σύμπαντα κόσμον· . . . σύστημα γάρ ἐστι τῶν ὅλων φύσεων αὐτοτελὲς καὶ τέλειον Diog. La. VII 137 λέγουσι δὲ (Stoici) κόσμον τριχῶς, αὐτόν τε τὸν θεόν τόν ἐκ τῆς πάσης οὐσίας ἰδίως ποιόν . . . (138) καὶ αὐτὴν δέ τὴν διακόσμησιν τῶν ἀστέρων κόσμον εἶναι λέγουσι, καὶ τρίτον τὸ‘ συνεστηκός ἐξ ἀμφοῖν. καὶ ἔστι κόσμος ὁ ἰδίως ποιός τῆς τῶν ὅλων οὐσίας ἤ, ὤς φησι Ποσειδώνιος ἐν τῇ Μετεωρολογικῇ Στοιχειώσει, σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν τούτοις φύσεων· Doxogr. p. 464,
18 (Arius Didymus) λέγεσθαι δὲ κόσμον σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀέρος καὶ γῆς καὶ θαλάττης καὶ τῶν έν αὐτοῖς φύσεων
9 sq. Doxogr. p. 337, 13 (Φιλόλαος) τὸ δὲ ὑπό τὴν τοῦ Ὀλύμπου φοράν, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς πέντε πλανήτας μεθ᾿ ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης τετάχθαι, κόσμον (καλεῖ). de Anaxagora cf. Arist. Eth. Eud. I
5 p. 1216a 11. Iamblich. Protr.
9 p. .51,
11 (Pistelli).
14 sq. cf. Doxogr. p. 461. Sext. Emp. Pyrrh. Hypot. III 136. Diog. La. VII 141.

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