Philo Judaeus, In Flaccum, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 92

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[92] καίτοι γ’ οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ τῶν κατὰ τὴν χώραν Αἰγυπτίων ὁπλολογηθέντων ὑπὸ ¹² Βάσσου τινός, ᾧ προσέταξεν ὁ Φλάκκος τουτὶ τὸ ἔργον, [ἀλλ’] ἦν τότε ἰδεῖν στόλον μὲν πολὺν νεῶν καταπεπλευκότα καὶ ἐνορμοῦντα τοῖς τοῦ ποταμοῦ λιμέσι, γέμοντα παντοίων ὅπλων, ἀχθοφόρα δ’ ὑποζύγια παμπληθῆ συνδεδεμένων δοράτων φορμηδὸν ἀφ’ ἑκατέρας πλευρᾶς εἰς τὸ
ἰσόρροπον, τὰς δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου πάσας σχεδὸν ἁρμαμάξας μεστὰς πανοπλιῶν, αἳ στοιχηδὸν ὑπὸ μίαν ὄψιν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν σύνταξιν ἐν κόσμῳ προῄεσαν· τὸ δὲ μεταξὺ τῶν λιμένων καὶ τῆς ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις ὁπλοθήκης, εἰς ἣν ἔδει κατατεθῆναι τὰ ὅπλα, δέκα σταδίων που διάστημα σύμπαν ἔχον.

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.) — 92 focus

[92] And indeed it was not a long time before that, that the arms had been taken away from the Egyptians throughout the whole country by a man of the name of Bassus, to whom Flaccus had committed this employment. But at that time one might have beheld a great fleet of ships sailing down and anchoring in the harbours afforded by the mouths of the river, full of arms of every possible description, and numerous beasts of burden loaded with bags made of skins sewn together and hanging like panniers on each side so as to balance better, and also almost all the waggons belonging to the camp filled with weapons of every sort, which were brought in rows so as to be all seen at once, and arranged together in order. And the distance between the harbour and the armoury in the king’s palace in which the arms were commanded to be deposited was about ten stadia;

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In Flaccum

1.
1 κάστον GH (Turn.): κάστορα Α (Mang.), om. M ὄνομα om. M παραλαβόντα MGAH (Mang.): παρὰ L (Turn.)
2 εὑτολμωτάτους Η προρρήσεως Mang.: προρήσεως cod. Vat. PaL 183, προσρήσεως ceteri (Turn.)
3 ἐπεισιόντας Α 3.
4 (ἐπεισι)όντα — παρασκευή SS. Η2
3 που ante τις add. M ἐναπόκηται G
4 τὸ προσταχθὲν GAH (Mang.): πρός τὸ πραχθὲν M, τὸ πραχθέν L (Turn.) ἐργασάμενος MG 5.
6 οὐκ εἰδότες — τέκνων ss. 2
5 εἱστήκεσαν H: εἱστήκεισαν MA, ἑστήκεσαν GL
6 alt. καὶ G, ss. Η2: om. MA
7 αἰχμαλωσίᾳ coni. Mang„ αἰχμαλωσίας Dahl αἰεὶ H (v)
8 ποῦ codd. (coni. Mang.): που v ταμιεύεσθε MH (coui. Mang): ταμιεύεσθαι GA (v)
9 καὶ τὰ] μὲν τὰ Η (v)
11 δ’ G
13 τὴν αὔλειον αὔλιον GL) codd.: τῆς αὐλείου v 1.5 καὶ] κἄν coni. Mang. τότε] ὅτι Α
16 ἐπανατεινόμέναις G
17 ὅσον] ὅσ (sic) M; πόσον coni. Weudl.
18 ἐγχειρίδια G: ἐγχειρίδιοι ceteri
19 παλτοί] παντοῖα Α
20 καθ’ ἡμέραν] ἡμετέραν A
21 μαχαιρίδια] ἐγχειρίδια Α εὐκολία εὐθὺς transp. Α
22 πολυτέλειαν] καὶ πολυτέλεια Α μὴ προσιεμένων om. Α
23 γενᾶν M δὲ M ἔγγονον H, ἔγγονος Α
24 γε ML (v) τὴν om. Α αἰγύπτου A

2.
28 κόρου — ἔκγονον: cf. Weudlaud, Philos Schrift uber die Vorsehung p. 108. Mus. Rhen. LII 487.

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