Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 237

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[237] ἀκοὴν ἐδεξάμεθα παλαιτάτην
ὑπὸ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα λογίων παραδοθεῖσαν, οἳ τὴν τῆς Γοργόνος κεφαλὴν τοσαύτην ἔχειν δύναμιν ὡμολόγουν, ὥστε τοὺς προσιδόντας εὐθὺς λίθους καὶ πέτρους γίνεσθαι. τοῦτο μύθου μὲν πλάσμα ἔοικεν εἶναι, τὸ δ’ ἀληθὲς αἱ μεγάλαι καὶ ἀβούλητοι καὶ ἀνήκεστοι συντυχίαι ἐπιφέρουσιν. ὀργαὶ δεσπότου θάνατον ἀπεργάζονται ἢ παραπλήσιόν
τι θανάτῳ.

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.) — 237 focus

[237] We have heard of a most ancient tradition, which has been handed down throughout Greece by their historians, who have affirmed that the head of the Gorgon had such mighty power, that those who beheld it immediately became stones and rocks. But this appears only to be a fiction and fable, the truth being that great, and unexpected, and wonderful events do often bring after them great disaster; for instance, the anger of a master causes death, or calamities equivalent to death.

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