Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 360

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[360] ὅταν δὲ αἰτιᾶται κρινόμενον δικαστὴς καὶ τοσοῦτος, ἀνάγκη σιωπᾶν· ἔστι γάρ πως καὶ δι’ ἡσυχίας
ἀπολογεῖσθαι, καὶ μάλιστα πρὸς οὐδὲν ὧν ἐπεζήτει καὶ ἐπεπόθει δυναμένους ἀποκρίνασθαι, τῶν ἐθῶν καὶ νομίμων τὴν γλῶτταν ἐπεχόντων καὶ τὸ στόμα κλειόντων καὶ ἀπορραπτόντων.

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.) — 360 focus

[360] And when a judge invested with such mighty power begins to reproach the person who is on his trial before him it is necessary to be silent; for it is possible even to defend one’s self in silence, and especially for people who are able to make no reply on any of the subjects which he was now investigating and desiring to understand, inasmuch as our laws and our customs restrained our tongues, and shut and sewed up our mouths.

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