Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 214

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[214] ἔννοιά τε αὐτὸν εἰσῄει τοῦ ἔθνους, ὅσον ἐστὶν ἐν πολυανθρωπίᾳ, ὅπερ οὐκ ἐδέξατο καθάπερ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον μιᾶς
χώρας τῆς ἀποκεκληρωμένης αὐτῷ μόνῳ περίβολος, ἀλλ’ ὀλίγου δέω φάναι πᾶσα ἡ οἰκουμένη· κέχυται γὰρ ἀνά τε τὰς ἠπείρους καὶ νήσους ἁπάσας, ὡς τῶν αὐθιγενῶν μὴ πολλῷ τινι δοκεῖν ἐλαττοῦσθαι.

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.) — 214 focus

[214] He also gave a thought to the circumstances of the nation itself, to its exceeding populousness, so that it was not contained as every other nation was by the circuit of the one region which was allotted to it for itself, but so that, I may almost say, it had spread over the whole face of the earth; for it is diffused throughout every continent, and over every island, so that everywhere it appears but little inferior in number to the original native population of the country.

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