Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 176

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[176] διασυρμοὶ δὲ ἦσαν ἀνακεκραμένοι κατηγορίαις, ἵνα τοῖς
μὲν ἡδονὰς κινῇ, ἡμᾶς δὲ τὰ μέγιστα βλάπτῃ· τὸ μὲν γὰρ προηγούμενον ἔργον εἶναι δοκοῦν, ὁ διασυρμός, πάρεργον ἦν αὐτῷ, τὸ δὲ φαινόμενον πάρεργον, αἱ κατηγορίαι, μόνον καὶ πρῶτον ἔργον.

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.) — 176 focus

[176] And he mingled numbers of satirical and quizzing observations with his more formal and serious accusations, in order to excite pleasure in his hearers by that means, and to do us the greatest possible amount of injury; for the quizzing and ridiculing appeared, as he used it, to be the principal object at which he aimed, though it was in reality only his indirect one; and the accusations which he launched against us appeared to be mere casual observations, dropped accidentally, though in reality they were his primary and sole object, while he was trying every expedient possible,

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 176

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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