Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 175

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[175] καὶ συνεσφαίριζε γὰρ καὶ συνεγυμνάζετο
καὶ συνελούετο καὶ συνηρίστα καὶ μέλλοντι κοιμᾶσθαι παρῆν Γαΐῳ, τὴν τοῦ κατακοιμιστοῦ καὶ κατ’ οἰκίαν ἀρχισωματοφύλακος τεταγμένος τάξιν, ὅση μηδενὶ προσῆν ἄλλῳ, ὡς μόνος ἔχειν εὐκαιρούσας καὶ σχολαζούσας ἀκοὰς αὐτοκράτορος τῶν ἔξω διαφειμένας θορύβων εἰς ἀκρόασιν ὧν μάλιστα ἐπόθει.

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

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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.) — 175 focus

[175] for he was in the habit of playing at ball with him, and of exercising himself ¹ in gymnastic sports with him, and of bathing with him, and breakfasting with him, and he was with Caius when he was wont to go to rest, filling the part of chamberlain and chief body-guard to him, an office which was not entrusted to any one else, so that he alone had all kinds of favourable opportunities for being listened to at leisure by the emperor, when he was removed from any external tumults and distractions, and able quietly to hear what he principally desired.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 175

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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