Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 48

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[48] Χρύσιππος γοῦν ὁ δοκιμώτατος τῶν παρ’ αὐτοῖς ἐν τοῖς Περὶ αὐξανομένου τερατεύεταί τι τοιοῦτον· προκατασκευάσας ὅτι "δύο ἰδίως ποιὰ ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς οὐσίας ἀμήχανον συστῆναι“, φησίν· „ἔστω θεωρίας ἕνεκα τὸν μέν ¹² τινα ὁλόκληρον, τὸν δὲ χωρὶς ἐπινοεῖσθαι τοῦ ἑτέρου ποδός, καλεῖσθαι δὲ τὸν μὲν ὁλόκληρον Δίωνα, τὸν δὲ ἀτελῆ Θέωνα, κἄπειτα ἀποτέμνεσθαι Δίωνος τὸν ἕτερον τοῖν ποδοῖν“. ζητουμένου δή, πότερος ἔφθαρται, τὸν Θέωνα φάσκειν οἰκειότερον εἶναι. τοῦτο δὲ παραδοξολογοῦντος μᾶλλόν ἐστιν ἢ ἀληθεύοντος.

De Aeternitate Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 48 focus

[48] Therefore Chrysippus, the most celebrated philosopher of that sect, in his treatise about Increase, utters some such prodigious assertions as these, and after he has prefaced his doctrines with the assertion that it is impossible for two makers of a species to exist in the same substance, he proceeds, "Let it be granted for the sake of argument and speculation that there is one person entire and sound, and another wanting one foot from his birth, and that the sound man is called Dion and the cripple Theon, and afterwards that Dion also loses one of his feet, then if the question were asked which had been spoiled, it would be more natural to say this of Theon;" but this is the assertion of one who delights in paradox rather than in truth,

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 κατ᾿ ἀνάλογον MU: κατά λόγον ΗΡ (Turn.)
2 μὲν om. L (Turn.) ἥλιος] καὶ ἥλιος Mang. πλανῆται, συμφθαρήσονται U
3 θεῶν v (Turu.): θεοῦ codd.
4 ὃ δὴ V (Turn.): ὃ δὴ εἰ codd.; verba ἢ θεοὺς φθειρομένους ὑπονοεῖν a librario addita et Philonem tantum οὗ δὴ τί γένοιτ’ ἂν αἰδοιότερον; vel simile qnid scripsisse putavit Cumout; οὖ δὴ τί γένοιτ᾿ ἂν εὐηθέστερον ἢ κτλ. coni. Weudl.
5 τῷ UHP: τὸ M; ἴσον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ Bernays
6 καίτοι τις Wendi.: καὶ τοῖς 31, τοῖς (om. καὶ) U, καίτοι HP (v) ; καί τις coni. Buecheler ἀτίμω M εὕροι M: εὕροις HP (v), εὐρεῖ U 6.
7 ἐκείνους U
7 χάριτι μὲν γάρ θεοῦ θνητὸν Buecheler: χάριτι μὲν θεοῦ ὄν· θνητόν γὰρ MU, χάριτι μὲν θεοῦ ὄν· θνητὸν μέν γὰρ HP (χάριτι θεοῦ ὄν· θνητὸν μὲν γὰρ v) θεοῦ] θεῶν Diels (Cuinont) κο εἰκός ἐστιν] εἰ πρόσεστι U
9 καταμανῶσι L οἵ γε Buecheler: οἵ τε codd.
11 τοῦ λόγου M μύδρους] μύλους coni. Mang., sed cf. de somn. I § 22
12 ἀποφήνεσθαι M περὶ] ὑπὸ U
13 νομίζοντας HP: νομίζουσαν MU 13.
14 ἁρμόζουσαν U
15 ὥστε om. in lac. M αὐτοὺς codd.
16 φιλοσοφοῦσιν M
17 γοῦν MU: οὖν HP (v)
18 ante προκατασκευάσας add. καὶ V (Turn.), om. codd. δύο ἰδίως ποιά Cumont: δύο εἰδοποιοὺς codd. δύο ἰδίως ποιοὺς hic et infra Arnim)

2.
11 Diog. La. II
8 οὗτος (Ἀναξαγόρας) ἔλεγε τὸν ἥλιον μύδρον εἶναι διάπυρον. Aet. Plac. II 13,
6 (Doxogr. p. 342, 1) Ἀρχέλαος μύδρους ἔφησεν εἶναι τοὺς ἀστέρας, διαπύρους δέ.
17 Chrys. frg. 397 (Arnim). cf. Doxogr. p. 462,
22 (de Posidonio) ἐπὶ τῶν ἰδίως ποιῶν οἷον Δίωνος καὶ Θέωνος καὶ αὐξήσεις καὶ μειώσεις γίνεσθαι.

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