Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 39

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[39] αἴτιον δέ, ὡς ὁ τῶν πολλῶν λόγος, οὐ μόνον τὸ ἀντιθεραπεύεσθαι πρὸς αὐτοῦ τὸν Μάκρωνα, πλεῖστον ἢ καὶ σύμπαν ἐν τῇ ἡγεμονίᾳ δυνάμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ Μάκρωνος γυνὴ διὰ σιωπωμένην αἰτίαν,
¹² ἣ καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἤλειφε καὶ συνεκρότει τὸν ἄνδρα μηδὲν ἀνιέναι σπουδῆς καὶ βοηθείας τῆς ὑπὲρ τοῦ νεανίσκου. δεινὸν δὲ γυνὴ γνώμην ἀνδρὸς παραλῦσαι καὶ παραγαγεῖν, καὶ μάλιστα μαχλάς· ἕνεκα γὰρ τοῦ συνειδότος κολακικωτέρα γίνεται.

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.) — 39 focus

[39] And the cause of this was according to the report which obtained among the generality of people, not only that Macro had, on the other hand, been greatly courted by him, as one who had the greatest, or, indeed, all the power under the empire; but also that Macro’s wife was favourable to him, for a reason which ought not to be mentioned, and she every day urged on, and encouraged, and entreated her husband to omit no exertion of his zeal and energy on behalf of the young man. And a wife is a very powerful engine to divert or to persuade the mind of her husband, especially if she be one of an amorous temperament, for because of her own consciousness she becomes more given to flattery.

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Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 φρονήσει om. Α καὶ om. Α κατ’ αὐτὸν (prob. Mang.): καθ’ αὐτῶν Μ, καθ’ αὑτὸν ceteri (v)
2 βούλευμα coni. Mang.
3 ἐφ’ om. MA ὁπόσον M οὐ
4 Κλαυδίων Cohn: Κλαυδίῳ L, Κλαυδίου ceteri (v) μόνω CGO: om. AH, post γένει transp. M
6 δὲ CGOMH (Turn.): τε Α (Mang.) xat om. A (Maug.) ἔκρινε post ἔχοντα add. Α (Mang.)
7 ἀλλόκοτον Α
8 ἐπιμανὲς A 8.
9 μήτ᾿ — μήτ’ A
9 ἅπαντι CGO παρεῖκον Mang.: παρῆκον codd, (v)
10 καὶ om. A μάλιστα OMH (v) διάνοιαν] εὐμένειαν Α
11 ἕλκεσθαι Α διὰ] καὶ Α, om. H ἄληκτον] ἀλλόκοτον Α; ἄλεκτον coni. Mang. τῷ] τὸν υἱωνῷ] οἰωνῷ C ἐξιόμενος M εὔνουν] ἐπιεικῆ coni. Mang.
12 πιθαρχικὸν C ἀπέφνε (sic) G
14 δ’ Α
15 συνθηκῶν] σκυθῶν CGO
16 πίστιν supplevit Mang. (Dahi): om. codd. (v) ἐγγιῶμαι MG λέγειν
18 ἐπίθεσιν Maug. (Dahl): ὑπόθεσιν codd. (v) ; ἀπόθεσιν coni. Morus
19 δεῖ] δὲ L; δὴ coni. Ernesti ἀξίως scripsi: ἀξίας codd. (v) ; ἄξιον coni. Mang. ἐπαίνους Mang.: ἐπαίνου codd. (v)
21 ἀσαφεῖς Turn. (v): σαφεῖς codd. ἐγενοντο A ἄν om. M
22 γνήσια M
23 δέ] δή Α
24 καὶ om. Α

2. 13.
14 DR foK 75v DL fol. 162r DM fol. 84r DV p. 378 Φίλωνος τὴν αἰδῶ φασι φησι DL) μὴ λυσιτελῆσαι πολλοῖς.

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