Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 64

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[64] ἔτι δὲ τὰς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθέων ἀναφερομένας εὐωδεστάτας αὔρας καὶ τὰς τῶν χρωμάτων ἀμυθήτους ἰδιότητας τέχνῃ δαιμονίῳ πεποικιλμένας, τὴν δ’ ὄψιν ἀποκλίνας ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμέρων ἐν μέρει πάλιν αἰγείρους, κέδρους, πεύκας, ἐλάτας, δρυῶν ὕψη περιμηκέστατα, τὰς ἄλλας τῶν ἀγρίων συνεχεῖς καὶ βαθείας ὕλας
περιαθρήσειεν, αἳ τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ μέγιστα τῶν ὀρῶν καὶ τὴν πολλὴν ὅση ¹² βαθύγειος τῆς ὑπορείου συσκιάζουσι, γνώσεται τὴν ἀνένδοτον καὶ ἀκάματον τῆς γῆς ἀεὶ νεαζούσης ἀκμήν·

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.) — 64 focus

[64] and rich also in the fragrant airs which are borne around from flowers, and the indescribable peculiarities of the various flowers which are diversified by divine skill. And then, if he turns aside his eyes from those trees which admit of cultivation, and beholds in their turn poplars, and cedars, and pines, and ashes, and the lofty oaks, and the dense and unceasing masses of all the other wild trees which overshadow the most numerous and the greatest of the mountains, and the greater part of the border country wherever there is any deep soil, he will then know that the vigour of the earth, which is always young, is unremitting, unsubdued, and unwearied.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 καθαρθεῖσα codd.: καταρθεῖσα (a κατάρδω irrigo) Mang. (Beruays Cumont)
2 φορᾶς Mang.: φθορᾶς codd.
3 οἰκείαν] οἰκίαν M
4 εἶτα M ἀφθόνας (sed ας in ους corr. ut vid.) U
5 παρό H
6 αὐτὴν mg, U, αὐτοὺς in textu U καὶ seclusit Bernays
8 μεμοίραται v (Turu.): μεμοίρανται codd.
9 τήν ante τε om. Η τε ss. H, om. L (v) ὀρινὴν M
10 χιλῶν Μ, χυλὸν L, (Turn.) πυροὺς] πυρὰς H
11 ἀναδιδοῦσαν U: ἃς ἀναδιδούσαν (sic) Μ, ἀναδιδούσας HP κατεβάλοντο MU: κατεβάλλοντο HP ἀπαυματοματίζουσα U
12 φυλλάδι P
14 ἀκεῖσθαι πόνους transp. U
16 τῆς ψυχῆς U ἔτι δέ καὶ U ἀνθέων M: ἀνθῶν UHP (ν): cf. Phryn. p. 454 Lob.
17 εὐωδεστάτας M: εὐοδεστάτας U, εὐωδεστέρας HP (v) χρωμάτων] ἀνθέων M (Bernays)
18 δαιμονία M
19 post πάλιν add. ὄψει U: κέδρους U: καὶ κέδρους MHP (v)
20 τὰς ἄλλας codd. (Turn.): τὰς ἄλλων Maug.
21 περιαθρήσειας M

2.
1 καθαρθεῖσα: cf. Plat. Tim. 22d . . . ὅταν δ’ αὖ οἱ θεοὶ τὴν γῆν ὔδασι καθαίροντες κατακλύζωσιν.
14 πόνους ἀκεῖσθαι: cf. Plat. Menex. 238 a ἐλαίου γένεσιν πόνων ἀρωγήν.

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