Philo Judaeus, In Flaccum, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 80

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[80] πῶς οὖν οὐ παγχάλεπον, τῶν ἰδιωτῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων Ἰουδαίων ταῖς ἐλευθεριωτέραις καὶ πολιτικωτέραις μάστιξι τετυπτημένων, εἴ ποτε ἔδοξαν πληγῶν ἄξια ἐργάσασθαι, τοὺς
ἄρχοντας, | τὴν γερουσίαν, οἳ καὶ γήρως καὶ τιμῆς εἰσιν ἐπώνυμοι, κατὰ ¹ τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ἔλαττον τῶν ὑπηκόων ἐνέγκασθαι, καθάπερ Αἰγυπτίων τοὺς ἀφανεστάτους καὶ ἐνόχους τοῖς μεγίστοις ἀδικήμασιν;

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.) — 80 focus

[80] How then can it be looked upon as anything but most infamous, that when Alexandrian Jews, of the lowest rank, had always been previously beaten with the rods, suited to freemen and citizens, if ever they were convicted of having done anything worthy of stripes, yet now the very rulers of the nation, the council of the elders, who derived their very titles from the honour in which they were held and the offices which they filled, should, in this respect, be treated with more indignity than their own servants, like the lowest of the Egyptian rustics, even when found guilty of the very worst of crimes?

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Philo Judaeus In Flaccum 80

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