Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 190

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[190] ἔπειτα συγκλεισάμενοι πάντες ἀθρόοι ἰδίας ὁμοῦ καὶ κοινὰς τύχας ἐθρηνοῦμεν καὶ οἷα ὑπέβαλλεν ὁ νοῦς διεξῇμεν — λαλίστατον γὰρ ἄνθρωπος ἀτυχῶν —· ἀγωνιάσωμεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ εἰς ἅπαν ταῖς ἀνιάτοις παρανομίαις ἀφεθῆναι. χειμῶνος μέσου διεπλεύσαμεν ἀγνοοῦντες, ὅσος χειμὼν ἔφεδρός ἐστιν ὁ κατὰ γῆν ἀργαλεώτερος πολλῷ τοῦ κατὰ θάλατταν·
τοῦ μὲν γὰρ ἡ φύσις αἰτία διακρίνουσα τοὺς ἐτησίους καιρούς, φύσις δὲ σωτήριον· ἐκείνου δὲ ἄνθρωπος οὐδὲν φρονῶν ἀνθρώπινον, νέος καὶ ¹² νεωτεροποιὸς ἀνημμένος τὴν ἐφ’ ἅπασιν p. 574 M. ἀνυπεύθυνον ἀρχήν· νεότης δὲ μετ’ ἐξουσίας αὐτοκρατοῦς ὁρμαῖς ἀκαθέκτοις χρωμένη κακὸν δύσμαχον.

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.) — 190 focus

[190] And then we all retired and shut ourselves up together and bewailed our individual and common miseries, and went through every circumstance that our minds could conceive, for a man in misfortune is a most loquacious animal, wrestling as we might with our misery. And we said to one another, "We have sailed hither in the middle of winter, in order that we might not be all involved in violation of the law and in misfortunes proceeding from it, without being aware what a winter of misery was awaiting us on shore, far more grievous than any storm at sea. For of the one nature is the cause, which has divided the seasons of the year and arranged them in due order, but nature is a thing which exerts a saving power; but the other storm is caused by a man who cherishes no ideas such as become a man, but is a young man, and a promoter of all kinds of innovation, being invested with irresponsible power over all the world. "And youth, when combined with absolute power and yielding to irresistible and unrestrained passion, is an invincible evil.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 φορτίζουσι G
2 κεκλήσεσθαι Α τι om. CGO (Turn.) ; τε Dahl
4 κενά L (Turn.)
5 ἀπεσχέθη M
8 δ’ Α ἐστὶν C, εἰσὶ
9 ἐθάδες] ἐνθάδε LD
10 ἀναλύζων GH : ἀναβλύζων A, ἀνολύζων COM
11 ἀνδριάντι A ἐσωτάτω CO: ἑστῶτα G, εἴσω ceteri; εἰσωτάτω v
12 προσέταξεν C Διὸς] δοὺς Α
13 πεπηγότων Η: πεπληγότων ceteri ὑπ’ CA: ὑπὸ OMH, ὑπὲρ G προελθεῖν Τurn. (v): προσελθεῖν codd. (coni. Mang.)
14 ὀλιγαδρανοῦντες H1, corr. Η2, ὀλιδρανοῦντες A παραρρέοντες αὑτοῖς Η2: αὐτοῖς CGOMH1, αὐτῶν Α; αὑτοὺς coni. Mang. ὡ ϊ
15 τόνων] ὄγκων Α
16 ὀδύνας Α, ὀδύνας OH καὶ ante ἔπειτα add. CGO (v) συγκλεισάμενοι] συναλισάμενοι coni. Matthaei
17 ὑπέλαβεν A; ὑπέβαλεν v διεξῇμεν Cohn: διέξιμεν codd.; διέξειμεν v
18 ἀγωνιάσωμεν CGOMA: ἀγωνισάμενος Η1, ἀγωνιζόμενος H2L; ἀγωνιαζόμενοι (v) interpunctione mutata antecedentibus adiunxit Mang. εἰς ἅπαν ταῖς OH2L: εἰς ἅπαντας (vel εἰς ἅπαν τὰς) CGMAH1; εἰς ἅπαντας ταῖς v, εἰς ἅπαν τὰς coni. Mang., ἡμᾶς ἅπαντας ταῖς coni. Dahl (εἰς ἅπαντα ταῖς in ἀνιάτοις (sive ἀνηκέστοις sive ἀκολάστοις coni.) Dahl: ἐν αὐτοῖς codd. (v) ; ἐν ἀσπὶς vel ἀνηκέστους coni. Mang.
19 παρανομίας Α (coni. Mang.) δὲ ante μέσου add. H2L
20 ἀργαλαιότερος G
21 διακρίνουσα C (Mang.): διακρίνασα ceteri (Tum.)
22 ἐκείνου AH2L (Mang.): ἐκείνους COME1 (Turn.), ἐκεῖνος G σωτήριος G οὐδὲ Η1 corr. H2, μηδὲν Α

2. 17.
18 DK fol. 178r ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς: λαλίστατον ἄνθρωπος ἀτυχῶν. praecedit Φίλωνος ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Γάιον πρεσβείας: ἐνθάδε γεγόναμεν κακοπραγιῶν (lin. 9).

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