Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 224

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[224] „πολλὰ εἰσηνέγκαμεν εἰς εὐγήρω βίον οἱ λίαν εὐτυχεῖς, ἵνα ὃ μηδεὶς πώποτε εἶδε τῶν προγόνων ἡμεῖς θεασώμεθα· τίσιν ὀφθαλμοῖς; ἐκκοπήσονται πρότερον μετὰ τῆς ἀθλίας
ψυχῆς καὶ τῆς ἐπωδύνου ζωῆς ἢ τοιοῦτον ὄψονται κακόν, ἀθέατον θέαν, ἣν οὔτε ἀκοῦσαι θέμις οὔτε νοῆσαι.“

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.) — 224 focus

[224] "We who were formerly very fortunate, have now advanced through many events to an exceeding old age that we might at last behold what no one of our ancestors ever saw. With what eyes can we endure to look upon these things? Let them rather be torn out, and let our miserable lives and our afflicted existence be put an end to, before we behold such an evil as this, such an intolerable spectacle which it is impious to hear of or to conceive."

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