Philo Judaeus, In Flaccum, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 175

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[175] And for all this I know now that retribution awaits me, and that the avengers are already standing as it were at the goal, and are pressing close to me, eager to slay me, and every day, or I may rather say, every hour, I die before my time, enduring many deaths instead of one, the last of all." ¹²

In Flaccum. Philo Judaeus. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). Germany. 2023-08-01.

Current edition First1KGreek

Against Flaccus (English) (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.)

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In Flaccum First1KGreek (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.) — 175 focus

[175] τούτων οἶδ’ ὅτι ἀναμένουσί με αἱ Ποιναί, καὶ οἱ ἀλάστορες ὥσπερ ἐπὶ βαλβῖσιν ἑστᾶσιν ἤδη καὶ φονῶντες ἔγκεινται, καὶ καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, μᾶλλον δὲ ὥραν, προαποθνῄσκω πολλοὺς θανάτους ὑπομένων ἀνθ’ ἑνὸς τοῦ τελευταίου.“

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Against Flaccus

1. This is like the passage in Shakespeare— Cowards die many times before their deaths; The brave men only taste of death but once."

2. This is like the passage in Shakespeare— Cowards die many times before their deaths; The brave men only taste of death but once."

Philo Judaeus In Flaccum 175

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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