Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 228

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[228] ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ ¹ Πετρώνιος ἐξ ἀπόπτου κατεφάνη, πᾶσαι αἱ τάξεις καθάπερ p. 580 M. κελευσθεῖσαι προσπίπτουσιν εἰς ἔδαφος ὀλολυγὴν θρηνώδη τινὰ μεθ’ ἱκετηριῶν ἀφιεῖσαι. παραινέσαντος δὲ ἀνίστασθαι καὶ προσελθεῖν ἐγγυτέρω, μόλις ἀνίσταντο καὶ καταχεάμενοι πολλὴν κόνιν καὶ ῥεόμενοι δακρύοις, τὰς χεῖρας ἀμφοτέρας εἰς τοὐπίσω περιαγαγόντες τρόπον ἐξηγκωνισμένων, προσῄεσαν.

Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

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Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 228 focus

[228] and when Petronius appeared at a distance all the ranks, as they had been appointed, fell to the ground, uttering a most doleful; howling and lamentation, mingled with supplications. But when he commanded them to rise up, and to come nearer to him, they would for a long time hardly consent to rise, and scattering abundance of dust upon their heads, and shedding abundance of tears, they put both their hands behind them like captives who are fettered in this way, and thus they approached him.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
2 Ἰουδαίων] ἱερέων (sic) A
3 καὶ CGO : om. ceteri συμβούλευσον (sic) C
4 γάρ om. Α
6 καταστορέσουσιν L (Mang.) 7.8 ἀναδιδάξαι Wendl.: ἀναδιδάξειν codd. (v)
8 διημάρτανεν C
9 φησιν ML ἀήθους Mang.: ἀληθοῦς codd. |(v)
10 καταπαγῆναι Cohn: καταπλαγῆναι codd. (v) ; καταπεπηγέναι coni. Mang.
12 τοιαῦτ’ A πολλαῖς ἠνέγκαμεν G εὐγήρω CGO: εὐγήρων ceteri (v)
13 εὐτυχεῖς] ἀτυχεῖς Α ἴδε G
15 ἐποδύνου G
16 pr. οὔτ’ A
17 τοιαῦτ’ Α
18 ἱεράπολιν ΟΑ 19.20 ἐξεληλύθεισαν (-ησαν G) codd. (v)
20 καὶ κώμας οm. Η
21 συνέτειναν
25 τοῖς om.
26 εἰδόσιν L
27 τὸ C: om. ceteri
28 οὐδὲ] οὐ M
30 παρόντος suspectum; πρέποντος coni. Mang. αὗται Α

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ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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