Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 138

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[138] ἐναργεῖς δὲ πίστεις p. 566 M. λαβεῖν ἔστι· πρῶτον μὲν ἀπὸ τῶν βασιλέων· δέκα που σχεδὸν ἢ καὶ πλειόνων ἐν τριακοσίοις ἔτεσιν ἑξῆς γενομένων, ἀνάθεσιν εἰκόνων ἢ ἀνδριάντων ἐν προσευχαῖς οὐδεμίαν ἐποιήσαντο, καίτοι
γε οἰκείων ὄντων καὶ συγγενῶν, οὓς θεοὺς καὶ ἐνόμιζον καὶ ἔγραφον καὶ ἐκάλουν.

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.) — 138 focus

[138] And one may find undeniable and notorious proofs of this having been the case. For, in the first place, one may derive them from about ten kings or more who reigned in order, one after another, for three hundred years, and who never once had any images or statues of themselves erected in our synagogues, though there were many of their relations and kinsmen whom they considered, and registered as, and spoke of as gods.

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