Philo Judaeus In Flaccum 187

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[187] βέλτιον ἄρ’ ἐν συγκρίσει κακῶν ἡ κατὰ γῆν τῆς ἐν πελάγει φθορά, ἐπειδήπερ ἀνθρώποις καὶ πᾶσι χερσαίοις οἰκειότατον ἡ φύσις χωρίον ἀπένειμε γῆν, οὐ μόνον ζῶσιν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποθανοῦσιν, ἵν’ ἡ αὐτὴ καὶ τὴν πρώτην ὑποδέχηται
γένεσιν καὶ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ βίου τελευταίαν ἀνάλυσιν.

In Flaccum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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Against Flaccus First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 187 focus

[187] Therefore, in a comparison of evils, destruction by land must be preferable to destruction by sea, since nature has made the land more closely akin to man, and to all terrestrial animals, not only while they are alive, but even after they are dead, in order that the same element may receive both their primary generation and their last dissolution.

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