Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 234

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[234] αὐτοὶ κατάρξομεν p. 581 M. τῶν θυμάτων οἱ καλοὶ ἱερεῖς, παραστησόμενοι τῷ ἱερῷ
γυναῖκας οἱ γυναικοκτόνοι, ἀδελφοὺς καὶ ἀδελφὰς οἱ ἀδελφοκτόνοι, κούρους καὶ κόρας, τὴν ἄκακον ἡλικίαν, οἱ παιδοφόνται· τραγικῶν γὰρ ὀνομάτων δεῖ τοῖς τὰς τραγικὰς συμφορὰς ὑπομένουσιν.

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.) — 234 focus

[234] but what need is there of any army? We ourselves, admirable priests for the purpose, will begin the sacrifice, bringing to the temple our wives and slaying our wives, bringing our brothers and sisters and becoming fratricides, bringing our sons and our daughters, that innocent and guiltless age, and becoming infanticides. Those who endure tragic calamities must needs make use of tragic language.

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