Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 202

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[202] θεασάμενοι γὰρ καὶ δυσανασχετήσαντες ἐπὶ τῷ τῆς ἱερᾶς χώρας τὸ ἱεροπρεπὲς ὄντως ἀφανίζεσθαι καθαιροῦσι συνελθόντες· οἱ δὲ εὐθὺς ἐπὶ τὸν Καπίτωνα ἧκον, ὃς ἦν τοῦ
δράματος ὅλου δημιουργός. ἕρμαιον δὲ εὑρηκέναι νομίσας, ὅπερ ἐκ πολλῶν χρόνων ἀνεζήτει, γράφει Γαΐῳ διαίρων τὰ πράγματα καὶ μετεωρίζων.

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.) — 202 focus

[202] "For when the Jews saw what they had done, and were very indignant at the holiness and sanctity and beauty of the sacred place being thus obscured and defaced, they collected together and destroyed the altar; so the sojourners immediately went to Capito who was in reality the contriver of the whole affair; and he, thinking that he had made a most lucky hit, which he had been seeking for a long time, writes to Caius dilating on the matter and exaggerating it enormously;

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