Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 106

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). Germany. 2023-08-01.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius (English) (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.)

Editions (1)
Legatio Ad Gaium First1KGreek (Philo Judaeus. pera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.) — 106 focus

Notes on the current edition

On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius

1.
This is one of the attributes of Apollo of which he boasts to Daphne.
Inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem
Dicor et herbarum subjecta potentia nobis:
Hic mihi quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis
Nec prosunt domino quae prosunt omnibus artes.
Met.1.461.
Or as it is translated by Dryden—
Medicine is mine; what herbs and simples grow
In fields and forests, all their powers I know,
And am the great physician called below.
Alas, that fields and forests can afford
No remedies to heal their love-sick lord.
To cure the pains of love no plant avails,
And his own physic the physician fails.