Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 108

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[108] πρὸς τοὺς γὰρ ἐν τέλει καὶ πλουσίους εὐτρεπεῖς ἦσαν αἱ παρασκευαί, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺς
ἐν Ῥώμῃ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ Ἰταλίᾳ, παρ’ οἷς ἄργυρος καὶ χρυσὸς τεθησαύρισται τοσοῦτος, ὥστε, εἰ σύμπας ὁ ἐξ ἁπάσης τῆς ἄλλης οἰκουμένης ἀπὸ περάτων αὐτῶν συνενεχθείη, πολλῷ καταδεέστερος ἂν εὑρεθῆναι. διὰ τοῦτο ἀπὸ τῆς πατρίδος ὥσπερ ἀφ’ ἱερᾶς ἤρχετο τὰ σπέρματα τῆς εἰρήνης ἀπορρίπτειν, ὁ ὁ μισόπολις, ὁ ὁ δημοβόρος, ἡ λύμη, τὸ φθοροποιὸν κακόν.

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

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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.) — 108 focus

[108] For his designs were prepared against all those in authority and all those possessed of riches, and especially against those in Rome and those in the rest of Italy, by whom such quantities of gold and silver had been treasured up that even if all the riches of all the rest of the habitable world had been collected together from its most distant borders, it would have been found to be very inferior in amount.

On this account he began, he, this hater of the citizens, this devourer of the people, this pestilence, this destructive evil, began to banish all the seeds of peace from his country, as if he were expelling evil from holy ground;

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 108

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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