Philo Judaeus In Flaccum 66

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[66] μυρίους μέντοι καὶ ἄλλους πολυτρόποις κακῶν ἰδέαις ἐπιτετηδευμέναις εἰς χαλεπὴν ὠμότητα κατειργάσαντο καὶ διέφθειραν οἱ
λελυττηκότες ὑπ’ ἀγριότητος | εἰς θηρίων φύσιν· τοὺς γὰρ ὅπῃ τύχοι ¹ φανέντας τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἢ κατέλευον ἢ ξύλοις κατέκοπτον οὐκ εὐθὺς ἐπὶ τὰ καιριώτατα μέρη τὰς πληγὰς φέροντες, ἵνα μὴ θᾶττον τελευτήσαντες θᾶττον καὶ τὴν τῶν ὀδυνηρῶν ἀντίληψιν ἀπόθωνται.

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.) — 66 focus

[66] and in this way their enemies, who in their savage madness had become transformed into the nature of wild beasts, slew them and thousands of others with all kinds of agony and tortures, and newly invented cruelties, for wherever they met with or caught sight of a Jew, they stoned him, or beat him with sticks, not at once delivering their blows upon mortal parts, lest they should die speedily, and so speedily escape from the sufferings which it was their design to inflict upon them.

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In Flaccum

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