Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 111

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[111] 15 πάντα γε μὴν ἐλπίσειεν ἄν τις μᾶλλον ἢ τοιοῦτον σῶμα καὶ ψυχήν, ἄμφω μαλακὰ καὶ κατεαγότα, τῇ περὶ ἑκάτερον Ἄρεως ἀλκῇ δυνηθῆναί ποτε ἐξομοιωθῆναι· ὁ δὲ ¹ ὥσπερ ἐπὶ σκηνῆς ἐναλλάττων πολυειδῆ προσωπεῖα φαντασίαις ψευδέσιν ἠπάτα τοὺς ὁρῶντας.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 111 focus

A man, indeed, may expect anything rather than that a man endowed with such a body and such a soul, when both of them are effeminate and broken down, could ever possibly be made like to the vigour of Mars in either particular; but this man, like a mummer transforming himself on the stage, putting on all sorts of masks one after another, sought to deceive the spectators by a series of fictitious appearances.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 πῶς GM μετεχάραᾶεν (sic) Η, μετεχάραττεν L
2 ὑγίειαν M ἐγγινομένας ὑφ’ ἑτέρων transp. Α συγγινομένας M
4 ὑγιαίνουσιν L
5 ζῶσιν L
6 χαλεπῶς AH (Mang.)
7 ἄν ante ἔφθασε add. Α ἔφθασε μὴ transpouendum vid. Mang. ἡ ante χρήσασθαι add. Α
8 χρήσασθαι seclusit Cohn κὰν] πᾶν Mang. γὰρ τοὺς transp. A
10 τοὺς ἐν ante τῇ add. M (Mang.) τεθησαύριστο Α (mavult Mang.)
11 ὥστ’ A οἰκομένης M
12 αὐτῶν om. H συνενεγχθείη M καταδεέστερον Η vel καταδεέστερον vel εὑρεθείη coni. Mang.
13 ἱεροῦ Α
14 ἀπορρίπτων coni. Mang. δημοβόρος] δημάδης H1, δημώδης H2, δημόδης L: δημοκόπος Turn. (in append.)
17 ἐπισκιασθεὶς] ἐπικλασθεὶς A αὐτῶν scripsi: τῶν codd. (om. v)
18 ἐπεμπίπτει GO
20 ὀφθαλμοὶ A
21 ᾶρ᾿ ἀνατιθέναι A
22 προυμηνύοντο Α τοῖς] τῆς M 22.
23 πανταχοῦ CGO: ἀπανταχοῦ ceteri; πανταχοῦ δοκιμωτάτοις coni. Cohn coll. § 144
23 τῷ] τὸ corr. in τῶ O
24 εἰς ante οἰκεῖον add. A οἰκεῖον] ὅμοιον coni. Mang.
26 γε om. M ἐλπίσει L
27 μᾶλλον supplevit Turn. (v): om. codd.
28 ἄρεος GMH

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