Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 257

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[257] ἐφοβήθης τὸ πλῆθος· εἶτα οὐ παρῆσαν αἱ στρατιωτικαὶ δυνάμεις, ἃς δέδιεν ἔθνη τὰ ἑῷα καὶ ἡγεμόνες αὐτῶν
Παρθυαῖοι; ἀλλ’ ἠλέησας· εἶτα οἴκτῳ μᾶλλον ἐνέδωκας ἢ Γαΐῳ; προφασίζου νῦν ἄμητον, τὸν ἀπροφάσιστον οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν ἐνδεξόμενος αὐτὸς τῇ κεφαλῇ· συγκομιδὴν αἰτιῶ καρπῶν καὶ τὰς εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν ἄφιξιν παρασκευάς· εἰ γὰρ ἀφορία παντελὴς ἐπέσχε τὴν Ἰουδαίαν, οὐκ ἦσαν αἱ πλησιόχωροι τοσαῦται καὶ οὕτως εὐδαίμονες ἱκαναὶ χορηγεῖν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια
καὶ τὴν μιᾶς ἔνδειαν ἀναπληρῶσαι;

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

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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.) — 257 focus

[257] But you pitied them, you paid more attention to feelings of compassion than to the express commands of Caius. "Make your pretext of the harvest, but you yourself shall soon find that you have brought on your own head a punishment which cannot be averted by any pretexts or excuses. Blame the necessity for collecting the crops, and for making adequate provision for my armies, for even if a complete scarcity were to oppress Judaea, still are there not vast regions on its borders of great fertility and productiveness, sufficient and able to supply all necessary food, and to make up for the deficiency of one district?

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 257

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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