Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 347

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[347]
σὺ μὲν ἄνθρωπος ὢν αἰθέρα καὶ οὐρανὸν ζητεῖς προσλαβεῖν, οὐκ ἀρκεσθεὶς τῷ πλήθει τῶν τοσούτων ἠπείρων, νήσων, ἐθνῶν, κλιμάτων, ὧν ἀνήψω τὴν ἀρχήν; τὸν δὲ θεὸν οὐδενὸς τῶν ἐνταῦθα καὶ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἀξιοῖς, οὐ χώρας, οὐ πόλεως, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν βραχὺν οὕτως περίβολον αὐτῷ καθιερωθέντα καὶ καθοσιωθέντα χρησμοῖς καὶ λογίοις θεσφάτοις
¹² ἀφελέσθαι διανοῇ, ἵν’ ἐν τῷ τῆς τοσαύτης γῆς p. 597 M. περιβόλῳ μηδὲν ἴχνος μηδὲ ὑπόμνημα καταλειφθῇ τιμῆς καὶ εὐσεβείας τῆς εἰς τὸν ὄντως ὄντα ἀληθῆ θεόν;

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.) — 347 focus

[347] What is this that you say? Do you, who are a man, seek to take to yourself the air and the heaven, not being content with the vast multitude of continents, and islands, and nations, and countries of which you enjoy the sovereignty? And do you not think any one of the gods who are worshipped in that city or by our people worthy of any country or city or even of any small precinct which may have been consecrated to them in old time, and dedicated to them with oracles and sacred hymns, and are you intending to deprive them of that, that in all the vast circumference of the world there may be no visible trace or memorial to be found of any honour or pious worship paid to the true real living God?

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 ἀργύρου H ἔπραττε M 1.2 προσεκλέγων CGO: om. ceteri 3.
4 ἀλλά — ὅλας] ἄλλας L
4 ὅλας οὐσίας trausp. Η προσεισέφερόν CGOH: προσεισφέρον M, προσεισέφερεν Α παρ’ om. M
5 ἑαυτῶν CGO: αὑτῶν AH, αὐτῶν M
6 δὲ CGO (v) εὐπάρυφοι καὶ MAH (prob. Mang.): om. CGO (v) σφόδρα CGO (v) παρ’ αὐτῶ post σφόδρα add. CGO (v), om. MAH1, post εὐδοκιμεῖν ss. Η2
7 πάμπολα Α
9 πάμπολλα MH (Mang.): πάμπολα A, πολλὰ CGO (Turn.) δ’ H
11 ἀπηύχοντό CGOAH2L: ἀπεύχοντό MH1
12 μόνον post ὠφέλειαν add. Η (v) ; vel delendum vel reponendum esse μέν censet Mang.
13 ἡ om. Mang. ἦν om. Α
14 ἀνομαλία C πρὸς] εἰς M γένος CGOM2H (Turn.): ἔθνος M1A (Maug.)
15 ἀπεχθόμενος CMA (Maug.): ἀπεχθανόμενος GOH (Turn.)
17 ἐφεὶς MH: ἀφεὶς CGOA (v) ; ἐφιεὶς Dahl ex Eusebio
18 δὲ CGOL: δ’ ceteri ἄψαυστος ἣν transp. A
19 ἠξιωμένος τῆς πάσης] ἠξίωσε καὶ M
20 οἶκον Α χρηματίζει Η
21 ζητεῖς CGOH2L: ἐζήτεις MAH1
23 καὶ] καὶ τῶν Α; τῶν Mang.
24 ἀξιοῖς CGO: ἠξίωσας οὕτω CGO
25 αὐτοῦ H καθοσιωθέντα MAH (Mang.): καθωσιωμένον (- ων G) CO (Turn.)

2. 13—20 Euseb. Hist. Eccl. II 6,
2 τοσαύτη μὲν οὑν τις ἡ τοῦ Γαΐου περὶ τὸ ἦθος — Γαἱου.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 347

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