Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 226

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[226] ἰδόντες δὲ τῶν Πετρωνίου τινὲς ὄχλον ἀμύθητον φερόμενον ἐβοηδρόμουν ἀπαγγέλλοντες, ἵνα φυλάττηται, πόλεμον προσδοκήσαντες. ἔτι δὲ διηγουμένων, ὁ μὲν ἀφρούρητος ἦν, ἡ δὲ τῶν Ἰουδαίων πληθὺς ἐξαπιναίως
ὥσπερ νέφος ἐπιστᾶσα πᾶσαν Φοινίκην ἐπέσχε, κατάπληξιν τοῖς οὐκ εἰδόσι τὴν τοῦ ἔθνους πολυανθρωπίαν ἐργασαμένη.

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.) — 226 focus

[226] And when some of the guards of Petronius saw a countless multitude hastening towards them they ran to their general to bring him the news, and to warn him to take precautions, as they expected war; and while they were relating to him what they had seen, he was still without any guards; and the multitude of the Jews suddenly coming upon him like a cloud, occupied the whole of Phoenicia, and caused great consternation among the Phoenicians who thus beheld the enormous population of the nation;

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