Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 54

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[54] ἐμοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἐξ ἔτι σπαργάνων μυρίοι διδάσκαλοι γεγόνασι, πατέρες, ἀδελφοί, θεῖοι, ἀνεψιοί, πάπποι, πρόγονοι μέχρι τῶν
ἀρχηγετῶν, οἱ ἀφ’ αἵματος πάντες καθ’ ἑκάτερον γένος τό τε πατρῷον ¹² καὶ μητρῷον, αὐτοκρατεῖς ἐξουσίας περιποιησάμενοι, χωρὶς τοῦ κἀν ταῖς πρώταις τῶν σπερμάτων καταβολαῖς εἶναί τινας δυνάμεις βασιλικὰς τῶν ἡγεμονικῶν.

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.) — 54 focus

[54] for from the moment that I left my cradle, I have had ten thousand instructors, fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, and grandfathers, up to the very founders of my family, in fact every one related to me either on my father’s or my mother’s side, who had acquired absolute power for themselves, even without taking into consideration the fact that, by their being the authors of my being, they had implanted in me some degree of royal power and some natural aptitude for government.

Notes on the current edition

Legatio Ad Gaium

1.
1 μάλιστ’ A ἀφ’ οὗ] αὐτοῦ M ἡμέτερον ΑΗ (Turn.) Σεβαστὸν εἰ Cohn: σεβάστιον CH (v): σεβάστιον M, σεβάστειον OA, σεάσμιον G ἤρξατο ὄντως τως transp.
2 ἁπάντων A
3 ἐξετάζετο L ἐσχατιᾶς Α; γῆς ἐσχατιὰς coni. Mang. ὑπερόρια codd. (mavult Mang.): ὑπερορίους v
5 εἰς — οἰκουμένην om. Α 5.
6 ἁ πάντα] ἅπαντα OMA
6 βασιλεῦ δικαιότατε ante παραπεμφθεὶς addendum censet Mang. ex D Anton. Mel. πεμφθεὶς M γοῦν om. M1D Anton. Mel., add, M2
7 τὴν ἀνωτάτω coni. Wendl.
8 σωτήριος ss. L2 (Turn.) μηδὲν H χαίρων μᾶλλον transp. Α
9 ἐν ante τᾷ add. Anton. Mel. τοὺς] τῆς H
10 δ’ Α
12 βουληθέντα L (Turn.) προσφέρειν MHD (Turn.)
13 τῆς om. Α ἀδηλότατος Α
15 τούτοις A κατεπᾴδων CO
18 δ’ MA ταυτὶ] παντὶ Ο
23 μέν om. M (v) ἐξ ἔτι σπαργάνων] ἔξεστιν ἐκ σπαργάνων γὰρ Α
24 γεγόνασιν Η μέχρι] μετὰ C

2. 6—9 Anton. Mel. II
1 Col. 1004 Φίλωνος: βασιλεῦ δικαιότατε, παραπεμφθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς φύσεως — ἢ ἐν τῷ τοὺς ὑπηκόους εὐεργετεῖν.
6 —
14 DR fol. 114 (post locum ad p. 163,22 adlatum) ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς : βασιλεῦ δικαιότατε, παραπεμφθεὶς ὑπὸ — παραφυλάττειν.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 54

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