Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 249

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[249] ἐν ἀκμῇ μὲν γὰρ τὸν τοῦ σίτου καρπὸν εἶναι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα σπαρτά, δεδιέναι δὲ μὴ κατ’ ἀπόγνωσιν ¹² τῶν πατρίων ἄνθρωποι καὶ τοῦ ζῆν καταφρονοῦντες ἢ δῃώσωσι τὰς ἀρούρας ἢ ἐμπρήσωσι τὴν σταχυηφόρον ὀρεινὴν καὶ πεδιάδα, φυλακῆς δὲ χρῄζειν εἰς ἐπιμελεστέραν τῶν καρπῶν συγκομιδήν, οὐ μόνον τῶν σπειρομένων ἀλλὰ καὶ ὧν ἡ δενδροφόρος παρέχει.

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.) — 249 focus

[249] for it was just at that moment the very height of the wheat harvest and of all the other cereal crops; and he said that he was afraid lest out of despair of the preservation of their national and hereditary laws and customs, the men might conceive such a contempt for life as either themselves to lay waste their lands, or to burn all the corn-bearing district, whether mountainous or champaign country, and, therefore, that he might require a guard to secure a careful gathering in of the crops, and that not only of such as were borne on the arable land but of those produced by fruit-bearing trees;

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 ἐστιν CGO: εἴη ceteri (v) ἀπαραίτητον H1, corr. H2
2 ὀργή G, εἰς ὀργήν Α ὡς ἔοικεν om. A ἔναυσμα 0, ἐνάσματα A, ἐναύσματι L (Turn.)
3 πάλιν
4 τῶν corr. ex τὸν M χώρων GOAH1, alt. ὢ corr. (ex o?) M: χωρῶν CH2L (v) ἐπετρόπευεν
7 τά] τὰς G δ’ Α 7.
8 ἔοικεν ὑπηχεῖν transp. Α
8 ὠφεληθήσονται CGOAH2L: ὠφελήσονται MH1
9 τίνες οὖν H2L: τινὲς ὧν CGO, τινῶν MAH1
10 τετευχνητεμένον C, τεχνιτευμένον H
11 ἄν CO: ἐὰν ceteri (Turn.) τ’ Α
13 συντέμνεσθαι A συμπόνω GO
14 ἥν CGOMH1: ἣν δ’ AH2L (v) ἐπιτρέπει CGO
15 τοῖς] τοῖς δὲ A
16 pr. μήτε] μήθ’ A alt. μήτε] μήτ᾿ Α
17 ἑκάτερα H φέρειν CO: φέρει GMAH μηδὲ Turn.
18 κατηγοροῦνται M δὲ CGO: δ’ ceteri ἀληθείας GOA (cf. 166,26): ἀληθεία CMH (v) 18.
19 καὶ ἀντιβολίας αὐτῶν CGO: αὐτῶν καὶ ἀντιβολίας ceteri
20 μεμετρημένου corr. ex μεμετρημένην M
21 ἀναβολὰς H (Mang.) 21.
22 οὐκ ἴσως] οὐχ ἑκουσίως coni. Mang. (Dahl)
23 κατ’] κατά codd. (v) ἀπόγνωσιν Turn. (v): πρόγνωσιν codd.

2. 7.
8 DR fol. 200v Antou. Mel. II
31 Col. 1077 Φίλωνος: τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἀγαθὰς ὑπέχειν ἔοικε γνώμας (γνώμας ἔοικεν Anton.)
6 θεός — ὠφεληθήσονται. 14—16 D C foL fol. ’’ (post iocum ad p. 199,1.
2 adlatum) et fol. 114r ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς (cf. Harris p. 109): οὐκ ἀσφαλές τοῖς βουλομένοις ἐπὶ τὸν πάντων ἡγεμόνα καὶ δεσπότην θεὸν ἐκκαλεῖσθαι τά πράγματα.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 249

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