Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 62

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[62] πίστις δὲ ἐναργὴς τῆς ἀδιαστάτου καὶ ἀιδίου περὶ γῆν ἀκμῆς τὰ ¹² φυόμενα· καθαρθεῖσα γὰρ ἢ ποταμῶν ἀναχύσεσιν, ὥσπερ φασὶν Αἴγυπτον, ἢ τοῖς ἐτησίοις ὄμβροις τὸν ἐκ τῆς φορᾶς κάματον ὑπανίεται καὶ χαλᾶται, κἄπειτα διαναπαυσαμένη τὴν οἰκείαν δύναμιν ἀνακτᾶται μέχρι παντελοῦς ῥώμης, εἶτ’ ἄρχεται πάλιν τῆς τῶν ὁμοίων γενέσεως τροφὰς ἀφθόνους

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.) — 62 focus

[62] And there is a visible proof of the uninterrupted and everlasting vigour of the earth in the plants which spring from it, for being purified, either by the overflowing of rivers, as they say that Egypt is, or by annual rains, by such irrigation it refreshes and recruits its exhausted powers, and then, having rested for a while, it recovers its natural powers to the full extent of its original vigour, and then it begins again with a repetition of the production of similar things to those which it produced before to supply abundant food to every description of animal.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 ἕδει] εἴδει U καθωρισμένα U
2 ἐγέννησεν M; ἐπενόησε coni. Mang.
3 δὲ M
4 ταῖς] τοῖς Η δὲ M ἀνωτάτω] ἄνω conicio βαθμῶν MU: βαθμὸς HP (Turu.)
6 παρισχυούσης M ἀποδίδωσιν ἀσθενεῖ Bernays: ἀποδιδοὺς ἐν ἀσθενεῖ MHP, ἀποδιδοὺς εὐσαθενεῖ U; ἀποδίδωσιν coni. iam Mang.
7 ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἠγνοηκότων scripsi: ἐξηγνοηκότων UHP (ἐξ ἠγνοηκότων Turn.), ἠγνοηκότων Μ; in ἐξ latere fortasse ἐκ γῆς putavit Diels
10 δὲ om. U τῶν ὅλων M: τῶν om. UHP (Turn.)
13 ἁρμόττον ἐνόμιζεν MU: ἐνόμιζεν ἐνόμιζεν HP (v)
14 γινόμενος HP: γενόμενος MU ἀλλ’ oni. L (Turn.)
16 μηδὲ] οὐδέ conicio; μηδὲ μείωσιν προσεῖναι εὔλογον coni. Wendl. post πρόσεστι spat. c.
litt. in M; ἔμπαλιν suppl. Cumont, εἰκότως Bernays (Diels) μὲν γὰρ M (Mang. Bernays): μὲν οὗν UHP (Turn. Cumont) μέχρι (sed με in ras.) P
17 ἄχρι γήρως MU: ἄχρι καὶ γήρως HP (v)
19 ἐπιγίνεσθαι P
20 οὕτως MU: οὕτω HP: οὔπω V (Turn.)
21 μένε] μέμεινε Η
22 ἐστιν Η 22.
23 φθίνειν HP: φθάνειν MU
24 δ’ U

2.
7 sqq. cf. Bernays, Theophrastos Schrift uber Frommigkeit p. 43.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 62

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