Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 168

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[168] ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ μὲν ἐτελεύτησε,
Γάιος δὲ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν διεδέξατο, νέῳ δεσπότῃ παρεπόμενος εἰς ἀνέσεις καὶ τρυφὴν τὴν διὰ πάσης αἰσθήσεως ἐπιχαλῶντι „σός“ εἶπε „νῦν ὁ καιρός ἐστιν, Ἑλικών, ἐπέγειρε σαυτόν· ἔχεις πρὸς ἐπίδειξιν ἀκροατὴν ¹ καὶ θεατὴν τὸν πάντων ἄριστον· εὔθικτος εἶ τὴν φύσιν· σκώπτειν καὶ χαριεντίζεσθαι δύνασαι μᾶλλον ἑτέρων· ἀθύρματα καὶ παιδιὰς ληρώδεις καὶ παρασεσυρμένας οἶδας· τῶν ἐγκυκλίων οὐχ ἧττον πεπαίδευσαι τὰ ἀχόρευτα· πρόσεστί σοι καὶ τὸ στωμύλον οὐκ ἀτερπές.

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.) — 168 focus

[168] But when Tiberius was dead, and Caius succeeded to the empire, he then, following a new master, who invited him to every description of relaxation and luxury, such as could delight every one of his outward senses, said to himself: "Rise up, O Helicon! now is your opportunity. You have now an auditor, and a spectator, who is of all men in the world the best calculated to receive the exhibition of your talents favourably. You are a man of very attractive natural talents. You are able to joke graceful, and to say witty, things beyond any one else. You are skilful in all kinds of amusements, and trifling, and fashionable sports. And you are equally accomplished in those branches of encyclical education which are not so ordinarily met with. Moreover, you have a readiness of speech and repartee which is far from unpleasing.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

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1 φέροντες Α ἐστὶν C σεμνὸν] ἄσεμνον sive συχνὸν coni. Matthaei 1.
2 παρ’ αὐτοῖς σεμνὸν transp. A
2 ἰοβόλοις ἀσπίσι καὶ ἴβεσι transponenda vid. Mang.
3 αὐτῆς CO: αὐτοῖς ceteri θηρίων αὐτῆς transponendum vid. Mang. (Dahl) νοί ὥστ’ Α
7 δέ] δὲ καὶ A (Mang.) ὑπελάμβανεν L θαυμάζεσθαι M παρ’ ] τοῖς Α; παρά Mang. 8.
9 ἐχρῶντο — ὀνόμασιν om. A
11 αὑτὸν] αὐτὸν codd. (v)
12 ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλεξανδρέων A
13 γὰρ] μὲν γὰρ M (Mang.) ἀνάγνωστον G αὐτῶ τοῦτο transp. καὶ Α (Mang.): om. ceteri (Turn.)
14 ἀηδεστάτη H1, corr. H2
17 πονηροῦ coni. Cohn coll. Dem. XXV 48 σπέρματα] θηρία coni. Mang., θρέμματα Matthaei 17.
18 κροκωδείλων (o ex a) C
20 ἑλίκων C (v)
23 οὑν om. Η μειρακειώδη C
24 μεμισηκότος A τε om. CGO
25 ἐπειδὴ δ’ Α ἐτελεύτησεν C
27 ἐπιχαλῶντι CGOAH (mavult Mang.): ἐπικαλοῦντι M (v) εἶπεν CA νῦν οm. Α
28 ἑλίκων C (v) ἐπέγειραι CG σαυτόν] δὲ αὐτόν A ἔχειν Α

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