Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 280

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[280] ἐν οἷς γὰρ ἐφεῖται καὶ ἔξεστι μετὰ νόμων εὐσεβεῖν, οὐδενὸς οὔτε τῶν Ἀσιανῶν οὔτε τῶν ἐν Εὐρώπῃ λείπεται
τὸ παράπαν, εὐχαῖς, ἀναθημάτων κατασκευαῖς, πλήθει θυσιῶν, οὐ μόνον ἐν ταῖς κατὰ τὰς δημοτελεῖς ἑορτὰς ἀναγομέναις, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν ταῖς καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἐντελεχέσιν· ἐξ ὧν οὐ στόματι καὶ γλώσσῃ μηνύουσι τὸ εὐσεβὲς μᾶλλον ἢ ψυχῆς ἀφανοῦς βουλεύμασιν οἱ μὴ λέγοντες, ὅτι φιλοκαίσαρές εἰσιν, ἀλλ’ ὄντες ὄντως.

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.) — 280 focus

[280] "For in all the particulars in which men are enjoined by the laws, and in which they have it in their power to show their piety and loyalty, my nation is inferior to none whatever in Asia or in Europe, whether it be in respect of prayers, or of the supply of sacred offerings, or in the abundance of its sacrifices, not merely of such as are offered on occasions of the public festivals, but in those which are continually offered day after day; by which means they show their loyalty and fidelity more surely than by their mouth and tongue, proving it by the designs of their honest hearts, not indeed saying that they are friends to Caesar, but being so in reality.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 280

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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