Philo Judaeus, In Flaccum, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 48

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[48] οἱ δέ — οὐ γὰρ ἔμελλον ἄχρι παντὸς ἡσυχάζειν καίτοι πεφυκότες εὖ πρὸς εἰρήνην, οὐ μόνον ὅτι παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις οἱ περὶ τῶν ἐθῶν ἀγῶνες καὶ τοὺς περὶ ψυχῆς κινδύνους ὑπερβάλλουσιν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ μόνοι τῶν ὑφ’ ἥλιον ἅμα ταῖς προσευχαῖς ἀπεστεροῦντο τὴν εἰς τοὺς εὐεργέτας εὐσέβειαν, ὃ μυρίων θανάτων
ἐτετίμηντο ἄν — οὐκ ἔχοντες ἱεροὺς περιβόλους, οἷς ἐνδιαθήσονται τὸ εὐχάριστον, καὶ τοῖς ἐναντιουμένοις εἶπον ἄν·

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

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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.) — 48 focus

[48] but the Jews, for they were not inclined to remain quiet under everything, although naturally entirely disposed towards peace, not only because contests for natural customs do among all men appear more important than those which are only for the sake of life, but also because they alone of all the people under the sun, if they were deprived of their houses of prayer, would at the same time be deprived of all means of showing their piety towards their benefactors, which they would have looked upon as worse than ten thousand deaths, inasmuch as if their synagogues were destroyed they would no longer have any sacred places in which they could declare their gratitude, might have reasonably said to those who opposed them:

Philo Judaeus In Flaccum 48

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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