Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 47

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[47] μεγίστη δὲ καὶ ἀρίστη τέχνη πασῶν ἐστιν ἡ ἡγεμονία, δι’ ἧς πᾶσα μὲν ἡ ἀγαθὴ καὶ βαθεῖα πεδιάς τε καὶ ὀρεινὴ γεωργεῖται, πᾶσα δὲ θάλαττα φορτηγοῖς ὁλκάσιν ἀκινδύνως διαπλεῖται κατὰ τὰς ἀντιδόσεις ὧν ἀλλήλαις ἀγαθῶν
ἀντεκτίνουσιν αἱ χῶραι κοινωνίας ἱμέρῳ, τὰ μὲν ἐνδέοντα λαμβάνουσαι, ὧν δ’ ἄγουσι περιουσίαν p.553 Μ. ἀντιπέμπουσαι.

Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 47 focus

[47] Now the greatest and most excellent of all sciences is the science of government, by means of which every country which is good and fertile, whether it be champaign or mountainous, is cultivated, and every sea is navigated without danger by heavily-laden merchant-vessels, to communicate to the different countries the useful productions of each, out of a natural desire for participation and association, so that each land receives what it stands in need of, and sends abroad in requital those good things of which it has a superfluity;

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 47

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