Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 146

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[146] This is he who did not only loosen but utterly abolish the bonds in which the whole of the habitable world was previously bound and weighed down. This is he who destroyed both the evident and the unseen wars which arose from the attacks of robbers. This is he who rendered the sea free from the vessels of pirates, and filled it with merchantmen. ¹

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

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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.)

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Legatio Ad Gaium First1KGreek (Philo Judaeus. pera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.) — 146 focus

[146] οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τὰ δεσμά, οἷς κατέζευκτο καὶ ἐπεπίεστο ἡ οἰκουμένη, παραλύσας, οὐ μόνον ἀνείς· οὗτος ὁ καὶ τοὺς φανεροὺς καὶ ἀφανεῖς πολέμους διὰ τὰς ἐκ λῃστῶν ἐπιθέσεις ἀνελών· οὗτος ὁ τὴν θάλατταν πειρατικῶν μὲν σκαφῶν κενὴν
ἐργασάμενος, φορτίδων δὲ πληρώσας·

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

1. He is attributing an honour to Augustus which does not belong to him. It was Pompey who cleared the sea of pirates.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 146

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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