Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 207

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[207] 31 Ἡ δὲ περὶ τῆς ἀναθέσεως τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐπιστολὴ γράφεται,
καὶ οὐχ ἁπλῶς ἀλλ’ ὡς οἷόν τε ἦν περιεσκεμμένως εἰς ἀσφάλειαν. κελεύει γὰρ Πετρωνίῳ τῷ τῆς Συρίας ἁπάσης ὑπάρχῳ, πρὸς ὃν καὶ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐγεγράφει, τῆς παρ’ Εὐφράτῃ στρατιᾶς, ἣ τὴν διάβασιν τῶν ἑῴων βασιλέων καὶ ἐθνῶν παρεφύλαττε, τὴν ἡμίσειαν ἄγειν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἰουδαίας τὸν ἀνδριάντα παραπέμψουσαν, οὐχ ἵνα σεμνοποιήσῃ τὴν
ἀνάθεσιν, ἀλλ’ ἵνα, εἰ διακωλύοι τις, εὐθὺς ἀπόληται.

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.) — 207 focus

And the letter respecting the erection of the statue was written not in plain terms, but with as much caution and prudence as possible, taking every measure which could tend to security; for he commands Petronius, the lieutenant and governor of all Syria, to whom indeed he wrote the letter, to lead half the army which was on the Euphrates, to guard against any passage of that river by any of the eastern kings or nations, into Judaea as an escort to the statue; not in order to honour its erection with any especial pomp, but to chastise with death any attempt that might be made to hinder it.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 207

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