Philo Judaeus In Flaccum 33

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[33] τῷ γὰρ ἀργοῦντι καὶ σχολάζοντι τῆς πόλεως ὄχλῳ — πλῆθος δ’ ἐστὶν ἐπιτετηδευκὸς γλωσσαλγίαν καὶ ἐνευκαιροῦν διαβολαῖς καὶ βλασφημίαις — ἐπιτρέπει κακηγορεῖν
τὸν βασιλέα εἴτε ἀρξάμενος δι’ ἑαυτοῦ τῶν λοιδοριῶν εἴτε προτρεψάμενος καὶ ἐναγαγὼν αὐτὸς διὰ τῶν ὑπηρετεῖν τὰ τοιαῦτα εἰωθότων.

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.) — 33 focus

[33] for he encouraged the idle and lazy mob of the city (and the mob of Alexandria is one accustomed to great license of speech, and one which delights above measure in calumny and evil-speaking), to abuse the king, either beginning to revile him in his own person, or else exhorting and exciting others to do so by the agency of persons who were accustomed to serve him in business of this kind.

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