Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 107

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[107] ὁ δὲ ἔμπαλιν νόσους μὲν τοῖς ὑγιαίνουσι, πηρώσεις δὲ τοῖς
ὁλοκλήροις, καὶ συνόλως θανάτους τοῖς ζῶσι χειροποιήτους πρὸ τοῦ μοιριδίου χαλεποὺς ἐπέφερε, πάντα τὰ φθοροποιὰ χορηγίαις ἀφθόνοις παρεσκευασμένος, οἷς, εἰ μὴ ἔφθασε προαναιρεθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς δίκης [χρήσασθαι], κἂν τὸ ἐν ἑκάστῃ πόλει δοκιμώτατον ἤδη διέφθαρτο.

Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 107 focus

[107] but this man, on the contrary, loads those who are in good health with disease, and inflicts mutilations on those who are sound, and in short visits the living with most cruel death, caused by the hand of man before the time of their natural death, preparing every imaginable engine of destruction in abundant plenteousness, by means of which, if he had not himself been previously put to death in accordance ¹ with justice, everything glorious or respectable in every city would long ago have been destroyed.

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