Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 319

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[319] ὑφηγητῇ τοιούτῳ τῆς εὐσεβείας χρησαμένη καὶ ἡ προμάμμη σου Ἰουλία Σεβαστὴ κατεκόσμησε τὸν νεὼν χρυσαῖς φιάλαις καὶ σπονδείοις καὶ ἄλλων ¹ ἀναθημάτων πολυτελεστάτων πλήθει· τί παθοῦσα καὶ αὕτη, μηδενὸς ἔνδον ὄντος ἀφιδρύματος; ἀσθενέστεραι γάρ πώς εἰσιν αἱ γνῶμαι τῶν γυναικῶν ἔξω τῶν αἰσθητῶν μηδὲν ἰσχύουσαι νοητὸν καταλαβεῖν.

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.) — 319 focus

[319] "And your grandmother, Julia Augusta, following the example of so great a guide in the paths of piety, did also adorn the temple with some golden vials and censers, and with a great number of other offerings, of the most costly and magnificent description; and what was her object in doing this, when there is no statue erected within the temple? for the minds of women are, in some degree, weaker than those of men, and are not so well able to comprehend a thing which is appreciable only by the intellect, without any aid of objects addressed to the outward senses;

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Legatio Ad Gaium

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1 δ’ MH ἐπιστολὴν om. Α ἐπιτέταχα Α τοῦ δεσπότου secludendum censet Cohu, ὦ δέσποτα coni. Mang. 2.
3 ἢν — τόδε in marg. M
2 νωρβανὸς GO, νοβαρνὸς Α λάκκος C ἐπέστελλε coni. Maug.
3 ἔστιν C ἀντίγραμμα H
4 νορβανὸς CH: νωρβανὸς GO, ὁβαρνὸς M, νοβαρνὸς Α
5 νομίζων coni. Mang., καὶ νόμοις ζῆν vel νόμοις δεῖν Gottleber
6 χρήματα φέρειν codd,: χρήματ’ εἰσφέρειν v
7 ἠθέλησα Α τοῦτο] τοῦ GO ὡς CGO: om. ceteri
8 οὕτω CGO (v) γενέσθαι Α κελεύω γίνεσθαι transp. Η κελεύει C (prob. Mang.): κελεύω GOMH (v), om. A ἄρα G, ἄρα οὑν O ἐναργὲς γὲς M αὐτοκράτωρ G
9 ἧ Α (Mang.): ἡ CGO (Turn.), ἣν MH τὴν CGO: τῆς Α, τῆ MH ἱεροῦ om. G τιμὴν O: τιμὴν ἧ C (Turn.), τιμὴ G, τιμὴ MH, τιμῆς A
10 βουληθῇς A τύπω CGO (mavult Mang. ex Cotelerii coniectura): τόπω ceteri (v) συναναιρεθῆναι A
11 ταὐτὸν MA ἀπαρχῆς A
12 δ’ ΑΗ
14 ἐνάγεσθαι CG ἐνδελεχεῖς Mang. (ἐντελεχεῖς scripsi; cf. 185, 1): ἐντελεῖς codd. (v) ὁλοκαύστους Ο
15 ἄρνες coni. Matthaei, cui ἄρνες — βωμὸν) suspecta
16 Καῖσαρ] καὶ σοῖς M ἐφαίδρυνε codd.: ἐφῄδρυνε v; ἐφήδυνε coni. Schϋrer
17 alt. οὔτε CGO: οὔτ’ ceteri ἀλλὰ γὰρ
6 CGO: ἀλλ’ ἅτε ceteri; ἀλλ’
6 v (ἀλλ’ ὅ γε coni. Mang.)
18 καὶ codd. (mavult Mang.): κατὰ v φιλόσοφος Cohn: φιλοσοφία Α (φιλοσοφίᾳ praefert Mang.), φιλοσοφίας ceteri; φιλοσοφίαν v
19 ἐστιν om. L ἀπονεμεῖσθαι Ο
20 περιεξιόντα G
22 χρησαμένη τῆς εὐσεβείας transp. A προμάμη M
23 νεὼν CG: ναόν OAH, λαὸν M σπονδαῖς Η

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