Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 247

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[247] ἣν ᾐτήσαντο πρεσβείαν, οὐκ ἐπιτρέπειν· ἀσφαλὲς γὰρ οὐκ εἶναι.
τοῖς βουλομένοις ἐπὶ τὸν πάντων ἡγεμόνα καὶ δεσπότην ἐκκαλεῖσθαι τὰ πράγματα μὴ ἐναντιοῦσθαι. τῷ πλήθει μήτε ὁμολογεῖν μήτε ἀρνεῖσθαι·

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.) — 247 focus

[247] But the embassy which they entreated leave to send he determined not to permit, for he considered that it would not be safe for him to allow it; still he determined not to oppose those who wished to refer the whole matter to the supreme sovereign and master, but neither to agree with nor to contradict the multitude, for he considered that either line of conduct was fraught with danger.

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