Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 43

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[43] πολλάκις δὲ καὶ ἐπικλίνας πρὸς οὖς, ἵνα μὴ κατακούοι τις ἕτερος, ἡσυχῇ καὶ πρᾴως ἐνουθέτει φάσκων· "οὐδενὶ
τῶν παρόντων ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων ὅμοιον εἶναί σε δεῖ, οὔτε ἐν θεάμασιν οὔτε ἐν ἀκούσμασιν οὔτε ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν ὅσα κατὰ τὰς αἰσθήσεις, ἀλλὰ προφέρειν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν περὶ τὸν βίον, ἐφ’ ¹²³⁴ ὅσον καὶ ταῖς εὐτυχίαις διενήνοχας.

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.) — 43 focus

[43] And very often, when he was reclining near him, he would whisper in his ear, and admonish him gently and quietly, so that no one else might hear what was said, saying, "You ought not only not to be like any one else here, but like no one else whatever, neither at any spectacle, or at anything that is to be heard, or in anything else that ever affects the outward senses, but you ought rather to surpass all other men in every action of your life, as much as you surpass them in your good fortune,

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Legatio Ad Gaium

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1 ἣ CGO: om. ceteri εἴληφε M
3 μάχλος D Anton. Mel.
4 κολλικικωτέρα M διαφοράν MA
6 στρατηγήμασιν L
9 ἂν ὑπούλοις C πεπαρρησιασμένοις Α
10 μεῖναι Μ
11 pr. μήτε] μήθ᾿ A (Mang.) alt. μήτε] μήθ’ MA (Mang.) ὑφ’] ὑπὸ M γοῦν A 11.
12 καταδαρθόντα Cohn: καταδαρθέντα codd. (v)
12 περιανίστη] περιιὼν ἀνίστη Α περιὼν ἀνίστη Mang., προσιὼν ἀνίστη coniecerat Matthaei) μὲν om. Α
14 ἐκμανῶς om. Α; ἐκμανεῖς coni. Siegfried ὀρχιστὰς CGO ὀρχηστὰς ὀρχηστὰς ἐκμανῶς transp. M ὡς ante ἔστιν add. GOMAH (v), om. C (sic mavult Mang.)
15 ἐπὶ μίμοις] ἐπιτιμίοις M σκωμάτων M, σκομμάτων L; σκώμμασι coni. Cohn
16 καγχάζοντα GAH: κακχάζοντα CM, καχλάζοντα 0, καχάζοντα Cohn
17 ὡς ante ἔστιν add. MA (Mang.) ; ὥστ’ Dahl συνᾴδοντα C (Turn.): συνᾴδειν ceteri (Mang.) καθιζόμενος Mang. 17.
18 κατεοι κεκλιμένος M
19 κατακούῃ L, ἀκούοι Α ἡσυχῇ καὶ πράως om. M 20.
21 οὕτ’ (ter) A
22 ἐν om. C τὸν MD (Mang.): om. ceteri (Turn.)

2. 2.
3 Flor. Laur. nr.
15 δεινὸν γυνὴ γνώμην ἀνδρὸς παραγαγεῖν.

3. 2—4 DR fol. I36r Anton. Mel. II
34 Col. 1089 Φίλωνος: δεινὸν γυνὴ — κολακικωτέρα (μαλακικωτέρα sive μαχλικωτέρα vel μαλακωτέρα Anton. Mel.) γίνεται.

4. 22—164,12 DR fol. 113v τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Γάιον πρεσβείας: τὸν ἡγεμόνα καὶ κύριον τῶν πραγμάτων τοσοῦτον χρὴ προφέρειν ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν περὶ τὸν βίον, ἐφ’ ὅσον καὶ ταῖς εὐτυχίαις τῶν ἄλλων διενήνοχεν — πράγματος (v. 5). εἰ γὰρ τὰ (v. 8) — μεγίστης τέχνης πασῶν (cf. v. 13) ἐπιστήμονα; 14—17 DK fol. 170r DM fol. 206v DP (Harris p. 98) Φίλωνος ἐκ τῆς (τοῦ DM) πρὸς Γάιον πρεσβείας πρεσβύτερον DM) DR fol. 190v Φίλωνος DV p. 551 Flor. Paris. nr. 30: ἄξιον θαυμάσαι τὴν θάλασσαν, δι’ ἧς τὰς ἀντιδόσεις τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν ἀγαθῶν om. Dk) αἰ χῶραι ἀλλήλαις ἀντεκτίνουσιν καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐνδέοντα λαμβάνουσιν, ὧν δὲ ἄγουσιν περιουσίαν ἀντιπέμπουσιν ἀναπέμπουσιν DK).

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