Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 31

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[31] ὡς δ’ οὐχ ὑπέμενον, αὐτὸς λαβὼν τὸ ξίφος ἐπυνθάνετο τὸν καιριώτατον τόπον ὑπ’ ἀγνοίας καὶ ἀηθείας, ἵνα εὐσκόπῳ πληγῇ τὴν ἀθλίαν ζωὴν ἀπορρήξῃ. καὶ οἱ μὲν οἷα διδάσκαλοι κακοδαιμονίας ὑφηγοῦντό τε καὶ ἐδείκνυσαν τὸ μέρος, ᾧ χρὴ τὸ ξίφος
ἐπενεγκεῖν· ὁ δὲ πρώτην καὶ ὑστάτην μάθησιν ἀναδιδαχθεὶς ἀνδροφόνος αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ γίνεται βιασθείς, ὁ δύστηνος.

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.) — 31 focus

[31] but when they did not dare to do so, he himself taking the sword inquired in his ignorance and want of experience what was the most mortal place, in order that by a well-directed blow he might cut short his miserable life; and they, like instructors in misery, led him on his way, and pointed out to him the part into which he was to thrust his sword; and he, having thus learnt his first and last lesson, became himself, miserable that he was, his own murderer under compulsion.

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