Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 117

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[117] ἓν δὲ μόνον ἔθνος ἐξαίρετον τῶν Ἰουδαίων ὕποπτον
ἦν ἀντιπράξειν, εἰωθὸς ἑκουσίους ἀναδέχεσθαι θανάτους ὥσπερ ἀθανασίαν, ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδὲν τῶν πατρίων περιιδεῖν ἀναιρούμενον, εἰ καὶ βραχύτατον εἴη, ¹ διὰ τὸ καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ὑφαιρέσει ἑνὸς καὶ τὰ ἔτι παγίως ἑστάναι δοκοῦντα συμπίπτειν πρὸς τὸ κενωθὲν χαλώμενα καὶ καταρρέοντα.

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.) — 117 focus

[117] But the single nation of the Jews, being excepted from these actions, was suspected by him of wishing to counteract his ¹ desires, since it was accustomed to embrace voluntary death as an entrance to immortality, for the sake of not permitting any of their national or hereditary customs to be destroyed, even if it were of the most trivial character, because, as is the case in a house, it often happens that by the removal of one small part, even those parts which appeared to be solidly established fall down, being relaxed and brought to decay by the removal of that one thing,

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 ἐναλάττων Η
2 δ’ om. L (v)
3 ἐξεταζέσθω Mang.: ἐξετάζεσθαι codd.; ἐξετάζεται Turn. δι (sic) C ἀλλοτριώτητα Η
4 τὴν Turn. (v): τῆς CGOH, ι τῆ M, τοῦ A ἄρεος GMH1 (corr. Η2) L
5 δ’ Α ἀνδρία M (v), ἀνδρεία οὐκ om. C
6 παραστάτην MH
7 γὰρ om. A
8 ὠνόμασταί G; προσωνομάσθαι coni. Mang.
9 ἕτερος ἑταῖρος Mang: ἕτερος om. MAH, ἑταῖρος om. CGOL; ἕτερος ἕτερος Turn. δὲ om. CGO
10 στάσεις] τάξεις M
11 ἀρά GA: ἄρα ceteri ἐκ om. Turn. ἀλλ’ om. A
12 οὐδ’ A
13 τυφλὸς Turn. δ’ Α ἡ om. C
14 μάλιστα MGO καινοδοξίαν M
15 εὐτυχεῖς Mang.: ἀτυχεῖς codd. (v)
16 alt. μόνους] μόνα Α προειρημένους GL, ει corr. in η OH2
17 δεδιγμένους (sic) M
20 γὰρ om. A καὶ ante γυναῖκες add. A πόλεις om. AH
21 κλήματα G φάναι om. M
22 γενομένοις H
23 ἔθνος A εὐγενὲς Mang. (Dahl): συγγενές codd. (v)
25 ἔθος M ἐξαίρετον τῶν (τὸ Ο) ἰουδαίων (Turn.): τῶν ἰουδαίων ἐξαίρετον M, τὸ τῶν ἰουδαίων ἐξαίρετον Α, τὸ ἰουδαίων ἐξαίρετον τῶν] τὸ τῶν Mang.
26 ἀντιπράττειν H εἰωθὼς Μ
27 εἰ—εἴη om. A

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 117

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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