Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 54

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[54] τάχα
τις εὑρεσιλογῶν Στωικὸς ἐρεῖ, τὸν χρόνον ἀποδεδόσθαι διάστημα τῆς τοῦ κόσμου κινήσεως οὐχὶ τοῦ νυνὶ διακεκοσμημένου μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν ὑπονοουμένου. πρὸς ὃν λεκτέον· τὴν ἀκοσμίαν, ὦ γενναῖε, μετατιθεὶς τὰ ὀνόματα κόσμον καλεῖς· εἰ γὰρ οὗτος ὃν ὁρῶμεν ¹² ἐτύμως καὶ προσφυέστατα κόσμος κέκληται, διατεταγμένος καὶ διακεκοσμημένος ἀνεπανορθώτου τέχνης ἀκρότητι, τὴν πρὸς τὸ πῦρ αὐτοῦ μεταβολὴν δεόντως ἄν τις ἀκοσμίαν ὀνομάσαι.

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.) — 54 focus

[54] Perhaps some quibbling Stoic will say that time is admitted to be an interval of the motion of the world, but not of that world only which is arranged and adorned by itself, but also of that one which is conceived of in connection with the conflagration which has been spoken of; to whom we must reply, —"My good man, you, misapplying words, call what is disorderliness and a want of arrangement order ( κόσμος), for if this thing which we see is correctly and appropriately called the world ( κόσμος), ¹ being arranged and adorned ( κεκοσμημένος) as we see it by man, by the perfection of his skill, then any one would be surely correct in calling the change which is wrought in it by fire a want of order."

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 πίστιν ss. M
2 ἀγένητος (utrumque) M: ἀγέννητος UHP
4 δέ τι τούτων Μ: δ’ ἐπὶ τούτων U, δέ πη τοῦτον HP (v) ἡλίου δίχα transp. M
5 καὶ τῆς UHP: καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς M: καὶ ἔτι τῆς Bernays
7 τοῦ aute κόσμου om. HP ἐπεὶ δὲ M: ἐπειδὴ δὲ U, ἔπειτα δέ HP (ἔπειτ᾿ οὐδέ Turn.) ἐστιν H
6 γὰρ κόσμος Turu. ἰσήληξ M, ἀπῆλιξ Η (ἀφῆλιξ Turn.)
8 δὲ M
9 κόσμος Bernays: χρόνος MUP, ὁ χρόνος Η χρόνος Beruays: κόσμος codd. γάρ καὶ] καὶ γὰρ U
10 ὂν] ἧ H συνεμφαίνει ΜU: συνυφαίνει HP (Turn.)
11 δὲ M ἀκόλουθον codd.: ἀκολουθῶν v ὑποστῆναι—97,
3 συνεπιγραψάμενος ante 80,
18 κατὰ τὸ παντελὲς tradunt codd., huc reduxit Bernays
12 κοσμικῆς mg P, χρονικῆς in textu P
14 τὰ δ’ ἀίδια φθοράς Bernays: τὰ δὲ διαφθορᾶς codd.
15 εὑρεσιλογῶν] εὑρεσιλόγων U, εὑρησιλογῶν M, εὑρήσει λόγων HP
16 νυνὶ διακεκοσμημένου Bernays: νῦν ἰδία κεκοσμημένου codd. (νῦν διακεκοσμημένου coni. iam Mang.)
17 ὑπονοουμένου M: ἐπινοουμένου UHP (v)

2.
3 Plat. Tim.
37 e ἡμέρας γὰρ καὶ νύκτας καὶ μῆνας καὶ ἐνιαυτοὺς οὐκ ὄντας, πρὶν οὐρανὸν γενέσθαι, τότε ἄμα ἐκείνῳ ξυνισταμένῳ τὴν γένεσιν αὐτῶν μηχανᾶται· ταῦτα δὲ πάντα μέρη χρόνου, καὶ τό τ’ ἢν τό τ’ ἔσται χρόνου γεγονότα εἴδη.
6 sq. Doxogr. p. 461,4 Zήνων ἔφησε χρόνον εἶναι κινήσεως διάστημα (Zeno frg.
93 Arnim) . . . Ἀπολλόδωρος δ’ ἐν τῇ Φυσικῇ Τέχνῃ οὕτως ὁρίζεται τὸν χρόνον· χρόνος δ’ ἐστὶ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου κινήσεως διάστημα. (idem traditur de Chrysippo et Posidonio ibid. 1. 23. 13.) Sext. Emp. Pyrrh. Hypot. HI 136 χρόνον γὰρ εἶναί φασιν οἱ μὲν διάστημα τῆς τοῦ ὅλου κινήσεως (ὅλον δέ λέγω τὸν κόσμον), οἱ δέ αὐτὴν τὴν κίνησιν τοῦ κόσμου. Diog. La. VII 141 ἔτι δὲ καὶ τόν χρόνον ἀσώματον, διάστημα ὄντα τῆς τοῦ κόσμου κινήσεως.

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