Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 192

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[192] εἰ δὲ καὶ γένοιτό τις ἄδεια προσόδου, τί χρὴ προσδοκᾶν ἢ θάνατον ἀπαραίτητον; ἀλλ’ ἔστω, τεθνηξόμεθα· ζωὴ γάρ τίς ἐστιν ὁ ὑπὲρ φυλακῆς νόμων εὐκλεέστατος θάνατος. εἰ δὲ ἐκ τῆς ἡμετέρας τελευτῆς
γενήσεται μηδὲν ὄφελος, οὐ μανία παραπολέσθαι, καὶ ταῦτα πρεσβεύειν δοκοῦντας, ὡς τῶν πεμψάντων μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν ὑπομενόντων εἶναι τὴν συμφοράν;

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.) — 192 focus

[192] And even if we were allowed free access to him, what else could we expect but an inexorable sentence of death? But be it so; we will perish. For, indeed, a glorious death in defence of and for the sake of the preservation of our laws, is a kind of life. "But, indeed, if no advantage is derived from our death, would it not be insanity to perish in addition to what we now have to endure, and this too, while we appear to be ambassadors, so that the calamity appears rather to affect those who have sent us than those who remain?

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