Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 59

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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[59] τούτοις συνεπείθοντό τινες ὡς ἀψευδέσιν
ἀγνοοῦντες τὸν φένακα τρόπον τοῦ λέγοντος· οὔπω γὰρ ἦν τὸ πεπλασμένον αὐτοῦ καὶ ποικίλον τῶν ἠθῶν ἐμφανές. ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐ πολλαῖς ὕστερον ἡμέραις ἐκποδὼν ὁ κακοδαίμων γίνεται σὺν τῇ γυναικί, τῆς περιττῆς εὐνοίας ἀμοιβὰς τὰς ἀνωτάτω τιμωρίας ἀντιλαβών.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] And many people have given credit to these assertions of his as if they were true, not being acquainted with the false I and crafty disposition of the speakers; for hitherto the dishonest and designing character of his disposition was not made manifest. But a few days afterwards the miserable man was put to death, with his wife, receiving the extremity of punishment as a reward for his exceeding good will towards his slayer.

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