Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 255

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[255] καὶ οἱ μὲν ἥκοντες
ἀνέδοσαν τὰς ἐπιστολάς, ὁ δ’ ἔτι μὲν ἀναγινώσκων διῴδει p. 584 M. καὶ μεστὸς ἦν ὀργῆς ἐφ’ ἑκάστῳ σημειούμενος· ὡς δὲ ἐπαύσατο, συνεκρότει τὰς χεῖρας "εὖ, Πετρώνιε“, φάσκων „οὐκ ἔμαθες ἀκούειν αὐτοκράτορος· αἱ ἐπάλληλοί σε ἀρχαὶ πεφυσήκασιν· ἄχρι τοῦ παρόντος οὐδὲ ἀκοῇ γνωρίζειν ¹ μοι δοκεῖς Γάιον, οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν αὐτοῦ πεῖραν ἕξεις.

Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 255 focus

[255] and when he had come to the end of the letter, he clapped his hands together, saying, "Of a truth, Petronius, you seem but little to comprehend that you are the subject of the emperor; the uninterrupted series of governments to which you have been preferred have filled you with guile. Up to the present time it seems to me that you have no notion of acknowledging that you know, even by hearsay, that Caius is emperor, but you shall very speedily find it out by your own experience,

Notes on the current edition

Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 πατέρων
31 δῃώσουσι C (Turn.)
2 ἐμπρήσουσι C (Turn.) σταχυφόρον Η
3 μόνων L
4 διεγνώκει μὲν Matthaei: διεγνώκαμεν codd.; διέγνωκε μὲν v
5 35 ante εἰς add. Α πελάγη Turn. δ’ Α
6 ἀξιώσει (corr. ex ἀξιοσ εὶσ) C: ἄξιος εἷς 00, ἀξιώσεις MAH alt. διὰ CGO: om. ceteri
8 ῥαδίως AH1: ῥᾴως CGOMH2L (v) τὸν ante κύκλον transp. διὰ GO περαιουμένων M
10 ὁλκόδας M παρὰ CGOH: περὶ MA 10.
11 παρὰ γῆν] παρὰ γῆν] (sic) G
11 φορτίσιν GO
12 κτήνεσιν L (Mang.)
13 ηὐτρεπίσθαι v γάρ] δὲ Ο
14 alt. διά om. MH θαλάσσης G ἀπ’ αὐτῆς] ἀπὸ τῆς G
15 ἑξῆς] ἐξαρχῆς M
16 δὲ] δὲ καὶ Turn.
17 ὁ δὲ CGO (Mang.):
6 δ’ ὅδ’ M:
6 καὶ Turn οἱκητικὸς M
18 αὐτὸ Mang.: αὐτῶ codd. (Turn.) μόνον om. A
19 δαψιλίαν G τοιούτοις G
20 γράμμασι τῶ CAH: τὸ GOM μὴ om. G
21 ὑπόθεσιν Η τῇ om. C (v), τὴς GO
23 ἀποδεξαμένων CGO : ἀποδεξάμενος ceteri
26 ὅδ’ M διώκει G
27 δέ CGO: δ’ ceteri
28 αἰ CGO: om. ceteri
29 ἐπάλληλόν M σε] τε M οὐδὲ CGO: οὐδ’ ceteri

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 255

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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