Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 364

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[364] ἀρξαμένων δὲ λέγειν καὶ διδάσκειν, ἀπογευσάμενος τῆς δικαιολογίας καὶ συνεὶς ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν εὐκαταφρόνητος, πρὶν ἐπενεγκεῖν τὰ ἐχυρώτερα, συγκόψας καὶ τὰ πρότερα δρομαῖος εἰς τὸν μέγαν οἶκον ¹² εἰσεπήδησε καὶ περιελθὼν προστάττει τὰς ἐν κύκλῳ θυρίδας ἀναληφθῆναι τοῖς ὑάλῳ λευκῇ παραπλησίως διαφανέσι λίθοις, οἳ τὸ μὲν φῶς οὐκ ἐμποδίζουσιν, ἄνεμον δὲ εἴργουσι καὶ τὸν ἀφ’ ἡλίου φλογμόν.

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.) — 364 focus

[364] And when we began to reply to him and to explain it, he, as soon as he had a taste of our pleading on the principles of justice, and as soon as he perceived that our arguments were not contemptible, before we could bring forward the more important things which we had to say, cut us short and ran forward and burst into the principal building, and as soon as he had entered he commanded the windows which were around it to be filled up with the transparent pebbles very much resembling white crystal which do not hinder the light, but which keep out the wind and the heat of the sun.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

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1 ταῦτ’ M
2 πάντα Η
3 ἐλλείπεις GO κατασκευαῖς coni. Mang. προσδιαττάττων M
4 εἶτα CGO: εἶθ’ ceteri
5 χλευαζόμενοι CGO (Turn.): καταχλευαζόμενοι ceteri (Mang.) καὶ κατακερτομούμενοι M: om. AH, κατακερτομούμενοι CGO (Turn.) ; καὶ κερτομούμενοι Mang.
6 μιμεία H: μιμία ceteri (v)
7 φαῦλοι (sic) G 7.8 ἀποβλέποντες Α
8 δὲ CGO: δ’ ceteri αἰτιᾶται] αἰτιῷτο τὸ Α
9 πως C: που ceteri 10.
11 καὶ μάλιστα — ἀποκρίνασθαι om. Α
10 ἐπεπύθει (sic) coni. Mang.
12 ἐπεὶ δὲ CGOH: ἐπεὶ δ’ A, ἐπειδὴ M
13 οἰκοδομὰς C: οἰκοδομίας GOMH, οἰκονομίας Α διετάξατο CA: διεδέξατο GOMH
14 ἐκ] πρὸς Α
16 τό] τε G
17 τινα CG (Turn.): τινας ceteri (Mang.)
19 δὲ CGO: δ’ ceteri
21 πολλά CGO
22 ἔστιν C, ἔσται Α
23 φλυαρηθέντες] χλευασθέντες coni. Mang. εἶτα CGO: εἶτ᾿ ceteri
25 πολιτείας] ἰσοπολιτείας coni. Mang.
27 ἐχυρώτερα CGM: ὀχυρώτερα OH, ὀχυρώτατα Α τὸν A: om. ceteri (v)

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9 DR fol. 157v τοῦ ὅταν ὅταν αἰτιᾶται δικαστὴς κρινομένου, ἀνάγκη σιωπᾶν.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 364

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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