Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 79

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[79] Καὶ μήν φασιν, ὅτι γενικοὶ τρόποι φθορᾶς εἰσι τρεῖς· ὅ τε κατὰ διαίρεσιν καὶ ὁ κατὰ ἀναίρεσιν τῆς ἐπεχούσης ποιότητος καὶ ὁ κατὰ σύγχυσιν. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἐκ διεστηκότων, αἰπόλια, βουκόλια, χοροί, στρατεύματα, ἢ πάλιν ἐκ συναπτομένων σώματα παγέντα διαστάσει καὶ διαιρέσει λύεται·
κατὰ δὲ ἀναίρεσιν τῆς ἐπεχούσης ποιότητος ὁ μετασχηματιζόμενος κηρὸς ἢ καταλεαινόμενος, ἵνα μηδὲ ἑτεροειδῆ τινα παράσχῃ τύπον μορφῆς· ¹² κατὰ δὲ σύγχυσιν, ὡς ἡ παρὰ ἰατροῖς τετραφάρμακος· αἱ γὰρ δυνάμεις τῶν συνενεχθέντων ἠφανίσθησαν εἰς ἐξαιρέτου μιᾶς γένεσιν ἀποτελεσθείσης.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 79 focus

[79] and, indeed, they say that there are altogether three generic manners of corruption, one which arises from division, another which proceeds from a destruction of the distinctive quality which holds the thing together, and the third from confusion; therefore the things which consist of a union of separate members, such as flocks of goats, herds of oxen, choruses, armies; or, again, bodies which are compounded of limbs joined together, are dissolved by disjunction and separation. But wax, when stamped with a new impression, or softened before being remodelled so as to present a new and different appearance, is corrupted by a destruction of the distinctive quality which previously held it together. Other things are corrupted by confusion, as the medicine which the physicians call tetrapharmacon, for the powers of the drugs brought together and combined were destroyed in such a manner as to produce one perfect medicine of especial virtue.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 καὶ τὰς ἐκπυρώσεις U ὁσιώτερον Cumont: θειότερον codd.
2 τὸ om. U παντὸς] πάντως Buecheler (Cumont) ; at cf. Arnim, Quellenstudien p. 18
4 ἐνδοιάσας ι ex u corr.) M: ἐνδυάσας UHP γὰρ νεότητος] γενναιότατος M
5 διιδεῖν δεῖ ἰδεῖν UP (Turn.), δεῖ εἴδειν Η
6 ἀπατηλὸς codd.: ἀπατηλὴ v (Turn.)
7 δὲ E πιθανοτάταις UHE ἅς ME: αἷς UHP
8 εἰ, φασι] φασὶ γὰρ εἰ E γεννγτὸς U
9 δοκεῖ εἷναι E
10 αἰτίαι εὑρεῖν MUE: εὑρεῖν αἰτίαν HP (v)
13 θεῶ Cumont: τῶ codd.
14 δῆλον ὅτι UE: δηλονότι MHP
15 τῆς φθορᾶς] καὶ φθορά coni. Mang. οὐδ’ ἡ] οὐδὲ M (Bemays)
16 φθοράς τρόποι E
17 καὶ post διαίρεσιν om. HP (v) καὶ ὁ—ποιότητος om. E cod. b
18 στρατεύματα, χοροί E
19 συναπτομένων V (Turn.): συναπτομένου codd. σώματα UHP: σώματος ME τῆ διαστάσει HP (Turn.) λύεται UE: λύονται MHP (v) 20.
21 κηρὸς ἢ καταλεαινόμενος om. UE
21 καταλεαινόμενος Diels: καὶ λεαινόμενος ΜΗΡ παράσχῃ] περίσχῃ M τύπον παράσχῃ Ε

2.
2 sqq. Diog. Babyl. frg.
27 (Αrnim, Stoic. vet. fragm. III p. 215). idem de Zenone Tarsensi tradit Arius Didymus (Doxographi p. 469 a 3): τὸν μὲν γὰρ τούτου (Chrysippi) μαθητὴν καὶ διάδοχον τῆς σχολῆς Ζήνωνά φασιν ἐπισχεῖν περὶ τῆς ἐκπυρώσεως τῶν ὅλων.
16 cf. Doxogr. p. 462, losqq. (Arius Didym.). Zellor. Philos. d. Griech. III
1 3, 95.
18 τά ἐκ διεστηκότων: Zeller III
1 3, 97.

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