Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 250

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[250] διεγνώκει μὲν γάρ, ὡς λόγος, πλεῖν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν τὴν πρὸς Αἰγύπτῳ, πελάγει δὲ οὐκ
ἀξιώσει τοσοῦτος ἡγεμὼν διά τε τοὺς κινδύνους καὶ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ παραπέμποντος στόλου καὶ ἅμα διὰ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν τοῦ σώματος, ἃ δὴ πάντα γίνεται ῥᾳδίως τὸν δι’ Ἀσίας καὶ Συρίας κύκλον περαιουμένῳ·

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.) — 250 focus

[250] for he himself was intending, as is said, to sail to Alexandria in Egypt, but so great a general did not choose to cross the open sea both by reason of the danger and also of the numerous fleet which would be required as his escort, and also from his regard for his own person, as everything requisite for his comfort would be more easily provided if he took the circuitous route through Asia and Syria;

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