Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 70

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[70] 9 Ἐπαγωνιζόμενος δ’ ὁ Κριτόλαος ἐχρῆτο καὶ τοιούτῳ λόγῳ· τὸ αἴτιον αὑτῷ τοῦ ὑγιαίνειν ἄνοσόν ἐστιν· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ αἴτιον αὑτῷ τοῦ ἀγρυπνεῖν ἄγρυπνόν ἐστιν· εἰ δὲ τοῦτο, καὶ τὸ αἴτιον αὑτῷ τοῦ ὑπάρχειν ¹² ἀίδιόν ἐστιν· αἴτιος δ’ ὁ κόσμος αὑτῷ τοῦ ὑπάρχειν, εἴ γε καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν· ἀίδιος ἄρα ὁ κόσμος ἐστίν.

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.) — 70 focus

14 9

But Critolaus, in arguing in support of his opinion, brought forward an argument of this kind, —"That which is the cause to man of his being in health is itself free from disease, and, in like manner, the cause of his keeping awake must itself be sleepless; and if this is the case, that which is the cause of his existing for ever must itself also be everlasting." Now the cause of man’s existing for ever is the world, since it is so to all other things whatever; therefore the world also is immortal.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 ὕφαιστος P
2 πρώτοις ο ex α corr.) γενομέναις M 2.
3 εἰς ὅπλισιν Diels: ἰσόπαις ἦν codd.; ὁπλίσεως ἣν Bernays, ὅπλων ἢν Buecheler
3 ἡμερώτερον M (Bernays) ὁ ante ἄνθρωπος om. U 4.5 τιθασεύεται scripsi: τιθασσεύεται codd.
5 κηρύκεια scripsi (cf. Leg. ad Gai. p. 560,
11 M.): κηρύκια M. κηρύκιον UH (v). oblitt. in P ἀναδῦναι MU: ἀναδοῦναι HP (v) συμβαντηρίων HP
6 σύμβολα] σύμβολον coni. Mang.
7 καταγγέλλει H
8 ἐξελήλεγκται U: ἐξελήλεκται MHP εὖ] αὖ coni. Mang.
10 ὡς εἰς MU: ὡσεὶ ΗΡ (v)
11 σωτηρίως] δαιμορίως (sic) U
12 τῶν om. HP ἴσχυσε M(U): ἴσχυε HP (v) 12.
13 ἴσχυσεν ἡμῶν λαβεῖν U
14 τεράστιον] ἄφθαρτον coni. Mang.
15 ἔργον] γένος coni. Mang. ἀγένητος M: ἀγέννητος UHP
17 δὲ M
18 αὐτῶ (bis) U: αὐτῶ MHP ἄνοσον] ἄνοσ (i. e. ἄνθρωπος?) M
19 αὑτῶ U: αὐτῶ MHP

2.
10 Plat. Tim. 19d ὡς εἰς ἄρουραν τὴν μήτραν ἀόρατα ὑπὸ σμικρότητος καὶ ἀδιάπλαστα ζῷα κατασπείραντες. cf. Aesch. Septem 737 ματρὸς ἁγνὰν σπείρας ἄρουραν. Eur. Orest. 553 τὸ σπέρμ’ ἄρουρα παραλαβοῦσ’ ἄλλου πάρα. 14.
15 Plat. Symp. 206 c ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο θεῖον τὸ πρᾶγμα, καὶ τοῦτο ἐν θνητῷ ὄντι τῷ ζῴῳ ἀθάνατον ἔνεστιν, ἡ κύησις καὶ ἡ γέννησις.
19 sqq. Ocell. Luc. I
9 οὕτως οὑν καὶ τὸ τοῖς ἄλλοις αἴτιον γινόμενον τῆς αὐτοτελείας αὐτὸ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ αὐτοτελές ἐστι, καὶ τὸ τοῖς ἄλλοις αἴτιον γινόμενον τῆς σωτηρίας καὶ διαμονῆς αὐτό ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ σῳζόμενον καὶ διαμένον ἐστί . . . ὁ δὲ γε κόσμος αἴτιός ἐστι τοῖς ἄλλοις καὶ τοῦ εἶναι καὶ τοῦ σῴζεσθαι καὶ τοῦ αὐτοτελῆ εἶναι· αὑτὸς ἄρα ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ ἀίδιός ἐστι καὶ αὐτοτελὴς καὶ διαμένων τὸν πάντα αἰῶνα, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο τοῖς ἄλλοις παραίτιος γινόμενος τῆς διαμονῆς.

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