Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 274

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[274] οὐ γὰρ ἐξαρκεῖ μοι τῷ βαρυδαίμονι λιμὸν ἀκέσασθαι διὰ ψιλῆς καὶ εἰς εὐτέλειαν ἀπηκριβωμένης
τῆς τῶν ἀναγκαίων χρήσεως; οὐδ’ αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα προσηκάμην ἄν, εἰ μὴ ἕνεκα τελευταίας βοηθείας, ἣν ὀνειροπολεῖ μου ἡ διάνοια τῷ ταλαιπώρῳ ἔθνει παρασχεῖν.“

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.) — 274 focus

[274] "Go," said he, "for you must by all means take care that I may have a more carefully regulated way of life, for it is not sufficient for me, unfortunate man that I am, to ward off hunger by a bare, and scanty, and economical, and precise use of necessary food; nor should I have attended to any such matters if it had not been my object to provide my miserable nation with the last resource which my mind suggests to me by way of assisting it."

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