Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 125

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[125] ἢ δι’ ὠθισμὸν καὶ πνῖγος, μηδεμιᾶς εὐρυχωρίας προσφερομένης, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ πέριξ ἀέρος κακωθέντος καὶ ὅσον ἦν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωτικὸν ταῖς ἀναπνοαῖς, εἰ δὲ δεῖ τὸ ἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, τοῖς ἐκπνεόντων ἄσθμασιν ὑποβαλόντος, ὑφ’
ὧν φλεγόμενος καὶ τρόπον τινὰ καταβολῇ πυρετοῦ πιεσθεὶς θερμὸν καὶ ἄτοπον πνεῦμα διὰ μυκτήρων καὶ στόματος εἰσέπεμπε, τὸ λεγόμενον κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν πῦρ ἐπιφέρων πυρί.

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.) — 125 focus

[125] or else through being crushed and suffocated from want of any adequate space to breathe in, all the air around them becoming tainted, and all that there was of vivifying power in their respiration being cut off, or, if one is to say the truth, utterly expelled, by the breath of those who were expiring among them. By which, each individual being inflamed, and in a manner oppressed by a descent of fever upon him, inhaled a hot and unwholesome breath through his nostrils and mouth, heaping, as the proverb has it, fire on fire;

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