Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 238

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[238] νομίζεις, ὃ μήποτε γένοιτο, παραπεμπόμενον εἰ θεάσαιντό τινες τῶν ἡμετέρων εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν τὸν ἀνδριάντα, οὐκ ἂν εἰς πέτρους μεταβαλεῖν, παγέντων μὲν αὐτοῖς τῶν ἄρθρων, παγέντων δὲ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, ὡς μηδὲ κινηθῆναι δύνασθαι, ὅλου δὲ τοῦ σώματος τὰς ¹² φυσικὰς κινήσεις μεταβαλόντος καθ’ ἕκαστον τῶν ἐν τῇ κοινωνίᾳ μερῶν αὐτοῦ;

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.) — 238 focus

[238] "Do you suppose (may God forbid that any such event should ever take place) that if any of our countrymen were to see this statue being brought into our temple, it would not change them into stones? Their limbs being all congealed, and their eyes becoming fixed so as not to be capable of motion, and their whole body losing all its natural motions in every one of its united parts and limbs!

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 ἀντιβαίημεν CGO: ἀντιβαίνοιμεν ceteri οὔτως AD: οὕτω ceteri (v) σφαγὰς] φυγὰςM
3 κρεωνομείτωσαν Turn. ἀμαχὶ G, ἀμάχως A ἀναιμοτί ML
4 στρατιᾶς CGOAH2L: στρατείας H1, ει corr. ex ι M
5 κατάρξωμεν Η ἱεροῖς παραστησόμενοι CG: παραστησάμενοι MAH, παραστησόμεθα
6 ἀδελφοὺς — ἀδελφοκτόνοι οm. Α
7 γὰρ CGO: om. ceteri (v)
8 τὰς om. A εἶτα CO
9 γὰρ om. O
10 ἅδου C, ἀιδίου G ἀποκατασφάξαντες GO αὑτούς AH: αὐτούς CGO, ἑαυτούς M
11 γενέσθω CGA: γινέσθω OMH (v) μέμψαιτο C, πέμψαιτ᾿ G οὐδὲ θεὸς] οὐδεὶς coni. Mang.
13 καθοσιωμένους G
14 ἀναβιώτου G 14.
15 παλαιτάτην CGOH: πάλαι ταύτην MA; παλαιοτάτην L (v) 1.5 οἲ τὴν] ἢ G
16 ὡμολόγουν] ἐμυθολόγουν coni. Mang.
17 πέτρας A,O (sed corr.) τοῦτο bis posuit τοῦτο μὲν μύθου μὲν (sic) M
18 δὲ CO ἀλληθὲς M μεγάλοι M ἀνήκεστοι Mang.: μέγιστοι CGO, μέγισται AH (v), μέγισται ἁ ex ὁ) M; καὶ μέγισται seclusit Dahl
19 ἐπιφέρουσιν] ἐπιμαρτυροῦσιν coni. Mang.
20 νομίζῃς C
21 θεάσαιντό GOMH: θεασωιντό (sic) C, θεάσονταί Α
22 πέτρους Cohn: πέτρον codd. (v) μέν L αὐτῆς H2 corr. ’’ αὐτοῖς — παγέντων δέ om. L (Turn.)
23 δὲ ΜΑΗ1: δὴ H2L, om. CGO τἀς om. Η1, add. H2

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2 DC fol. 50v DK fol. 183v DR fol. 60ν Φίλωνος ἐκ τῆς πρός Γάιον πρεσβείας fol. 160r Φίλωνος DM fol. 138v DP fol. 140 DV p. 448 Anton. Μel. II
24 Col. 1068 Φίλωνος: οὐδεὶς — δεσπότη.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 238

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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